IDNO

P.99889.VH

Description

See P.99858.VH & P.99860.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

The left image is a Dufty studio portrait of “Vaka, Waitova [=Waitovu], Ovalau Island”, a young Christian Fijian man wearing an unusual necklet, and a white fringed barkcloth waist sash.
Circa 1875-1876. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003, from record P.87357.VH, updated JD 29/12/2011]

Dufty studio portrait of “Petiro [Petero = “Pedro”], Ovalau Island”, a bearded Fijian man wearing a fringed white barkcloth iwabale shoulder sash.
Circa 1875-1876. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.87327.VH and P.99860.VH, updated JD 15/1/2012]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka; Waitovu

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Vaka; Pedro (Petiro; Petero)

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.

Named Person: The man on the left is named as “Vaka, Waitova [=Waitovu], Ovalau Island.” in P.99858.VH. The Description and Named Person fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 6/3/2012]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund. [A. Nadin, 16/9/2003]