IDNO

P.99910.VH

Description

Portrait cut from a larger F.H. Dufty photograph, mis-identified as “Ratu Tio” or Josefa Celua, the third son of Ratu Seru Cakobau, Vunivalu of Bau, but is actually Ratu Timoce Tavanavanua, Ratu Seru Cakobau and Yadi Samanunu’s second son. He is wearing a beaded neck band and a fringed tartan throw or travel rug as an isulu skirt.
The occasion is the council of chiefs or bosevakaturaga that the governor, Sir Arthur Gordon, convened at Waikava on the south coast of Vanualevu in November of 1877. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, updated JD 21/1/2012]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Vanua Levu; Waikava

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Ratu Timoce (Timoci, Timothy) Tavanavanua

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

November 1877

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]