IDNO

P.99918.VH

Description

Studio portrait of Yadi Arieta Kuila (left) and her younger sister, Yadi Unaisi, both daughters of Ratu Seru Cakobau and Yadi Litia Samanunu of Bau.
Circa 1873-74. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka; Bau

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Yadi Arieta Kuila; Yadi Unaisi

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka (Dufty, Francis Herbert)

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.

Publication: A duplicate carte-de-visite is held at the National Library of Australia, reference nla.pic-an10975065-11, with the following information:
Creator: Dufty, Francis H., 1846-1910.
Title: Unknown [picture] / F.H. Dufty.
Date: between 1870 and 1879.
Extent: 1 photograph : carte de visite ; 7.3 x 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.
Summary: Photograph probably of two Cakobau's daughters, possibly Adi Arieta Kuila (d.1881) and Adi Kakua.--Information provided by Dr. R. Ewins; RO8/102782.
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]

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