IDNO

P.99850.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty photograph of Theodor Kleinschmidt’s drawing of Tui Nadrau dressed in a voluminous presentation costume of dark masi barkcloth which he is about to slough of in presentation to the governor, Sir Arthur Gordon, at the Armed Native Constabulary fortified camp at Natuatuacoko in Navosa, in the western highlands of Vitilevu, October 1877.
Only recently Christian, he still wears a whale ivory saunidaliga ornament through his left ear lobe. A pair of lavei or qato bracelets made from sici or trochus shells are above his left elbow. See P.100017.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Viti Levu; Navosa; Natuatuacoko

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Tui Nadrau, Nasaunivalu (personal name)

Photographer

Kleinschmidt, Theodor [Original Artist]; Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

post October 1877

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.

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund. [A. Nadin, 10/9/2003]