IDNO

P.99920.VH

Description

Studio portrait of Yadi Unaisi (younger sister of Yadi Arieta Kuila, and daughter of Ratu Cakobau and Yadi Samanunu of Bau) and young Yadi ‘?Laisania’.
Circa 1873-1874. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Yadi Unaisi; Yadi ?Laisania

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: Dufty’s Levuka studio is recognisable through the backdrop of foliage, including banana leaves, to the right and the pineapple? plant to the left. The painted backdrop of an idealised vies out a window with wooden shutters is just visible through the foliage. The same iirimasei chief’s or priest’s fan, made from a single leaf with regular spacing and spaced fringing, only appears in Dufty’s photographs when the studio is decorated with the above mentioned foliage. This configuration of studio props appears to be used by Dufty between circa 1870 - 1875. [JD 12/3/2012]

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]