IDNO

P.99924.VH

Description

Studio portrait of a bearded man of the Lasakau fisher tribe of Bau. See P.87326.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Cropped version of F.H. Dufty’s studio portrait of a bearded and bare chested man of the Lasakau fisher tribe of Bau. In the uncropped portrait the man is wearing a chequered and apparently fringed isulu kilt and holding an iulatavatava throwing club.
Early to mid 1870s. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.52431.VH, updated, JD 25/11/2011]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; ?Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Dufty Brothers, Levuka

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1870 - 1875

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 image, via its uncropped duplicate print, P.52431.VH, 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 13/3/2012]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund. [Alex Nadin, 12/02/2003]