IDNO

P.99891.VH

Description

“Ratu Seru” of Bau, and (inset) a profile of Ratu Seru in his tunic as an ovisa or officer of the Armed Native Constabulary.
F.H. Dufty studio portrait, circa 1874.
See ?P.4105.ACH1. And look for him in P.87218, P.87219, P.87342.VH, P.99730.VH, P.99731.VH, P.99734.VH, P.99784.VH, etc. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; ?Levuka; Bau

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Ratu Seru

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa ?1874

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.

Related Image: This commercial photograph appears more than once in the MAA Collections. There is no original negative. [JD 17/1/2012]

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