IDNO

P.99847.VH

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.4095.ACH1: “17 plates of Fijians.” [typed text]

Studio portrait of “Ratu (Tione (=Jone)) Vea, Bau” [on mount of P.99881.VH], wearing a smoked barkcloth ivauvau hair wrapper, beaded necklace, fringed cloth isulu skirt, and with braided and fringed vesasausauwai leg wrappings with beaded fringes.
Circa 1873.
See P.4095.ACH1, P.99841.VH, P.99881.VH and P.99873.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print masked to oval vignette and mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Ratu Tione Vea (Ratu Jone Vea) [misnamed as Jone Tholata]

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1873

Collection Name

von Hügel Collection

Source

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.99726.VH to P.100050.VH were in the belted folder now numbered C539/3/. This was formerly kept in paper archive Large Box G; VH1/4/5. It has now been transferred to the photo archive. The lists describing the contents of this box have been returned to the Paper Archive.

Photographer: This print was provisionally attributed to “?Dufty Brothers, Levuka”, but Dufty’s Levuka studio is recognisable in the duplicate uncropped print, P.99881.VH, through the backdrop of foliage, including banana leaves to the right and the pineapple? plant to the left. The same chair also appears in a number of Dufty’s portrits. This configuration of studio props appears to be used by Dufty between circa 1870 - 1875. The Photographer and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 12/3/2012]

Related Image: See P.99881.VH for the uncropped albumen print of the portrait of Ratu Tione Vea. [JD 26/10/2011]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund.