IDNO

P.99919.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty studio portrait of “Ratu Marika” of Somosomo, Taveuni island, Cakaudrove, with his wife or daughter (right), and son?. Both chiefs wear iwabale shoulder sashes, Ratu Marika’s being of oily brown masikuvui, or smoked barkcloth, as is his waist sash. The son? holds a gatawaka club.Note the photographer’s clamps.
Circa 1873-74. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; ?Levuka; Cakaudrove; Taveuni Island; Somosomo

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Ratu Marika

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.

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]