IDNO

P.99930.VH

Description

On Catalogue Card: “17 plates of Fijians.” [typed text]

On the left is “Nabua, Tailevu”. See P.4105.ACH1. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Two studio portraits of two Fijian men.
On the left is ‘Nabua’, a man from Tailevu who has what looks like a grazing bullet scar running along his upper arm, and the short hair of a probably recent Wesleyan convert. He wears a multicoloured and pleated kilt of split pandanus leaf, presumably over a malo loincloth worn in every day fashion, down round the hips, and holds a large davui or Triton shell trumpet.
The bearded chief on the right wears a smoked masi barkcloth headdress, and is dressed in the relaxed isuluvakatoga or Tongan derived style popular among many chiefs at home, wearing a length of brown-patterned gatuvakatona barkcloth wrapped round him, falling from just below the rib cage and bound round by a broad white masi sash. In his hands is an iuladrisia throwing club.
Circa 1875-1876. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.4105.ACH1, updated JD 7/11/2011]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; ?Levuka; Tailevu

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Nabua

Photographer

?Dufty Brothers, Levuka

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa ?1870 - 1880

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 appears to be the original image from which the associated photographs have been derived from. [JD 8/11/2011]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund.