IDNO

P.99909.VH

Description

Studio portrait of Ratu Timoce Tavanavanua, second son of Ratu Seru Cakobau, Vunivalu of Bau and Tui Viti or King of Fiji. He wears the smoked barkcloth ivauvau or hair wrapper and the fringed white barkcloth iwabale or shoulder sash of a chief, and is dressed in a fringed isulu skirt and barkcloth waist sash. Note the stand of the photographer’s clamp behind his feet.
Taken in the early 1870s, during the time of the Cakobau government of 1871-1874. [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.

Publication: A duplicate carte-de-visite is held at the National Library of Australia, reference nla.pic-an10975065-1, with the following information:
Creator: Dufty, Francis H., 1846-1910.
Title: Ratu Timoci Tavanavanau, second son of Cakobau [picture] /Date: between 1870 and 1879.
Extent: 1 photograph : carte de visite ; 8.6 x 5.5 cm., on mount 61 x 116.4 cm.
Context: Part of Dufty, Francis H., 1846-1910. Panorama of Levuka, Fiji, and portraits [picture]
Series: Panorama of Levuka, Fiji, and portraits.
Notes: Mounted with a montage of 5 albumen prints forming a panorama, and 11 other carte-de-visite portraits of Fijian and Tongan Chiefs and people.
[Source: www.nla.gov.au, JD 9/3/2012]

Publication: A duplicate carte-de-visit is held at the British Museum, reference Oc,A3.95, with the following information:
Production person: Photographed by Francis Herbert Dufty (biographical details | all objects)
Production place: Photographed in Fiji (all objects)
(Oceania,Polynesia,Fiji)
Date: 1870s
Description: Photograph (black and white) from an album; carte de visite; portrait of a Fijian man, Ratu Timoci Tavanavanau, son of the chief of Bau, standing in front of a neutral backdrop with tropical vegetation and a curtain; he wears a headdress of bark cloth, a necklace, shoulder sash, and cloth wrap around his waist; he holds a staff in his hands; Fiji.
Albumen print
Inscriptions: Rotu Timothy, Chief of Fiji, son of Thakombau.
Curator's comments: From an album of 176 photographs in carte-de-visite format, by various photographers, including Lindt, Damman, Pulman and others, depicting depicting peoples of the Pacific, as well as Africa, Asia and South America..
Related image/production/date: The National Library of Australia has the same image in their collection (nla.pic-an10975065-1), the caption for which reads: "Dufty, Francis H., 1846-1910. Ratu Timoci Tavanavanau, second son of Cakobau [picture] between 1870 and 1879. 1 photograph : carte de visite ; 8.6 x 5.5 cm., on mount 61 x 116.4 cm. " Oc,B89.10 is a different image of Ratu Timoci Tavanavanau. A further different image of Ratu Timoci Tavanavanau has been published in: Brewster, A.B. "King of the Cannibal Isles", which can be found on-line:
http://www.justpacific.com/fiji/fijiphotos/books/cannibalIsles/index.html (accessed 30/09/08).
[Source: www.britishmuseum.org, JD 9/3/2012]

Related Image: This commercial photograph appears more than once in the MAA Collections. There is no original negative. [JD 25/1/2012]

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