IDNO

P.99866.VH

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.4110.ACH1: “17 plates of Fijians.” [typed text]

See P.87467.VH and P.4110.ACH1. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Studio portrait of a young and unmarried woman, as indicated by the myriad of tobe plaits falling to her left shoulder. Her hair ornament is topped by a bedraggled peacock(?) feather. Her breasts are covered by a white barkcloth iwabale shoulder sash, and she wears a broad barkcloth waistband embellished with greenery over her cotton print isulu wrap-around skirt. She is holding a feather duster.
Circa 1875-1876. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.4110.ACH1, JD 9/11/2011]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto thin card.
It looks like another person? or object? has been edited out of the upper far right side of this image. [Alex Nadin, 30/9/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; ?Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (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 a feather duster? is recognisable as a studio prop used by the Duftys’ Studio circa 1875 - 1876. The Photographer, Date, and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 26/3/2012]

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