IDNO

P.99905.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty studio portrait of Tui Levuka. His isulu wrap-around kilt is secured by a barkcloth sash overlain by another of black sasauwai fibres. See P.4099.ACH1.
Circa 1875-1876. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Studio portrait of the Tui Levuka of Levuka, Ovalau, a wavy-haired man with a Christianised hairstyle who is wearing a band of black sausauwai or waloa over his white barkcloth ioro waistband, and a plain white isulu kilt.
Early to mid 1870s. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.52437.VH, JD 3/11/2011]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Tui Levuka

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: This image is recognisable as Dufty’s Levuka studio through the painted studio backdrop to represent a view out a window with shutters (note the knob added to the shutter that casts a shadow). This appears to be a feature of Dufty’s studio throughout the 1870s, although the idealised landscape ‘view’ changes around 1875-1876. The Photographer, Date, and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 13/3/2012]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund. [A. Nadin, 18/9/2003]