IDNO

P.99859.VH

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.4101.ACH1 : “17 plates of Fijians.” [typed text]

See P.4101.ACH1. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

A studio portrait of a member of the Armed Native constabulary in blue uniform jersey-type shirt and wearing a batinivuaka pig tusk necklace and masi barkcloth waistband.
Circa 1875-1876. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.4101.ACH1, updated JD 15/1/2012]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; ?Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

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.

Context: The number of deliberate frontal and profile portraits taken by F.H. Dufty in 1875-76 raises the question of whether or not he was commissioned to do this by somebody dabbling in physical anthropology. The most likely contenders in such case would be: Anatole von Hugel, his arch foe Rev. Lorimer Fison, and von Hugel’s real competitor, whom he only ever once mentions in passing (which is diagnostic!), Theodor Kleinschmidt, the competent professional collector for the Godeffroy Museum. See P.4101.ACH1. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

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