IDNO

P.99862.VH

Description

“Moturiki” - Moturiki island lies just west of Ovalau and is closely affiliated to Bau. See P.87314.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Dufty studio portrait of a young Fijian chief dressed for ceremony, dance, or the photographer, with a batinivuaka pendant at his throat, fringed white barkcloth iwabale shoulder sash, and a fringed white barkcloth waist sash, and holding a throwing club.
Early to mid 1870s. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003, from record P.87314.VH, JD 15/1/2012]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka; Moturiki

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka (Dufty, Francis Herbert)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1870 - 1875

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]