IDNO

P.99908.VH

Description

Studio portrait of Ratu Timoce Tavanavanua, second son of Ratu Seru Cakobau, at that time Tui Viti, or King of Fiji. He wears an itaubebatinivuaka or boar tusk pendant of the type fashionable through the late 1860s and the 1870s, when they were imported from Tanna and the New Hebrides (currently Vanuatu) by the labour traders.
Early 1870s - during the time of the Cakobau government of 1871-74. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; ?Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Ratu Timoce (Timoci, Timothy) Tavanavanua

Photographer

?Dufty Brothers, Levuka

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1871 - 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 print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 21/1/2012]

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