IDNO

P.99926.VH

Description

Portrait, labelled “Rewa (Bau)” of an elderly Fijian chief with a white moustache and ivauvau hair wrapper but showing what is probably Musudroka, the Vunivalu of Rewa, and cut from a wider group portrait featuring him, Ratu Seru Cakobau and other high chiefs at the council of chiefs or bosevakaturaga that the governor, Sir Arthur Gordon, convened at Waikava, southern Vanualevu, in November 1876. See P.99842.VH. He is also present in P.99825.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; South Vanua Levu; Waikava

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

?Musudroka

Photographer

?Dufty Brothers, Levuka

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

November 1876

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.

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