IDNO

P.99946.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty studio portrait of a young Fijian man with white feathers in his hair and wearing a chief’s fringed white barkcloth iwabale shoulder sash, a white barkcloth malo loincloth, and a likusausauwai overskirt, together with braided black vesasausauwai wrappings fringed with trade beads bracing his calf muscles. He is holding a cricket bat.
Circa 1875-1876. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1875 - 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.

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 8/3/2012]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund. [A. Nadin, 29/9/2003]