IDNO

P.99927.VH

Description

Studio portrait of Koroicata of the Lasakau fisher tribe of Bau. See P.87312.VH.
Circa 1873-1874. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Studio portrait of “Koroi-cata (Lasakau - Bau)”. Koroicata was a member of the Lasakau - one of the fishing or seafarer tribes at Bau island, just off the east coast of Vitilevu.
The man is cultivating tobe tufts at the back and left side of his head, is bare-chested and he wears a batinivuaka boar tusk necklace ...
Circa 1869-1871. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003, from record P.87312.VH, updated JD 28/11/2011]

Physical Condition: The image has been cropped to form a quarter-length portrait. Print mounted onto card. [JD 28/11/2011]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka; Bau; Lasakau

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Koroicata (Koroi-cata)

Photographer

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: This print was provisionally attributed to “?Dufty Brothers, Levuka”, but the uncropped duplicate print, P.87312.VH, has been identified as Dufty’s Levuka studio through the recognicaton through the backdrop of foliage of banana? leaves to the right. This configuration of studio props appears to be used by Dufty between circa 1869 - 1875. The Photographer and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 12/3/2012]

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