IDNO

P.99861.VH

Description

See P.87451.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Dufty studio portrait of a young Fijian man wearing a fringed white barkcloth iwabale shoulder sash, and broad waistsash with train.
Circa 1875-1876. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003, from record P.87451.VH, JD 15/1/2012]

Studio portrait of “Suani”. See P.99861.VH and P.87451.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.99923.VH, JD 21/1/2012]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Suani

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.

Photographer: The use of this specific iirimasei fan, with an edging of a double roll and triangular cut? leaves, as a studio prop (see P.87396.VH for full detail of three of the iirimasei used), along with the wooden chair, are recognisable as used by Duftys’ Studio, Levuka, circa 1875 - 1876. The Photographer, Date, and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 26/3/2012]

Related Image: This commercial photograph appears more than once in the MAA Collections. There is no original negative. [JD 21/1/2012]

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