IDNO

P.99915.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty studio photograph of three Fijian women and a child. From left to right: “Sinimila” of the Lasakau fisher tribe at Bau, “Asenaca”, and “Merioni”. (‘Mereoni’ probably derived from the name of Mary Ann Lyth, Wife of Rev. R. B. Lyth, Wesleyan missionary of the 1840s).
Circa 1873-1874. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka; Bau

Cultural Affliation

Lasakau

Named Person

Sinimila; Asenaca; Merioni

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1873 - 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.

Photographer: This print 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 16/3/2012]

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]