IDNO

P.99887.VH

Description

Studio portrait of a young Fijian man sitting on a mat wearing a Cakaudrove barkcloth wrapper and holding an iuladrisia throwing club. He has an itaubebatinivuaka boar tusk pendant tied to a ribbon at his throat. (The sitter in P.99888.VH is wearing the same pendant).
1880s? [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Waters, J.W.; ?Caine & Co., Suva

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa ?1880 - ?1890

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.