IDNO

P.99852.VH

Description

Dufty studio portrait of “Nai Vako”, a shirtless Fijian man with a white waist sash, with European-type side whiskers.
Circa 1875-1876. See P.87305.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

F.H. Dufty studio portrait of “Nai Vako”, a shirtless Fijian man with a white waist sash, with European-type side whiskers.
Circa 1875-1876. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003, from record P.87305.VH, JD 4/11/2011]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; ?Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

?Nai Vako

Photographer

?Dufty Brothers, Levuka

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1875 - 1876

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]