IDNO

P.99907.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty studio portrait of, to read the writing showing through from the reverse, “Mosese [Moses], a Rewa man”.
See P.87243.VH for a view of him and his wife and a description of his outfit, the difference in this case being that he is wearing a batinivuaka or boar tusk pendant, and has a lawedua or white-tailed tropicbird tail feather in his hair. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

F.H. Dufty studio carte-de-visite photograph of a Fijian chief, ‘Moses’, dressed for dance or ceremony, and his wife. He has cock tail feathers in his hair, a white bead necklace, and is wearing a fringed white barkcloth iwabale shoulder sash, a broad white barkcloth waist sash over his malo loincloth and a black likusausauwai with a striped pandanus leaf streamer fringe, and has black vesasausauwai leg wrappings, fringed with trade beads. His club is a kiakavo.
Circa 1875-1876. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003, from record P.87243.VH, updated JD 20/1/2012]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Moses

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.

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 20/1/2012]

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