IDNO

P.99950.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty studio portrait of Ratu Tio, meaning Ratu Josefa Celua, third son of Ratu Cakobau and Yadi Samanunu, the same youth as in P.99879.VH, wearing the same patterned cloth isulu but with a white rather than smoked barkcloth waistsash, and a different beaded necklace, and without the vesa calf wrappings.
Circa 1869-1871. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Ratu Tio (also known as Ratu Josefa Celua)

Photographer

Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka)

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1869 - 1871

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: Dufty’s Levuka studio is recognisable through the backdrop of foliage, including the banana? plant to the left. The same chair also appears in a number of Dufty’s portrits. This configuration of studio props appears to be used by Dufty between circa 1870 - 1875. The Photographer and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 12/3/2012]

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 16/1/2012]

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