IDNO

P.99957.VH

Description

Studio portrait of a manacled and shorn Kai Colo or Vitilevu highland convict - probably taken prisoner in the Ba Campaign of 1873. A sisi or vuasagale whaletooth necklace has been strung round his neck, and an iulatavatava throwing club thrust derisively through the waistband of his liku overskirt. What were probably pinioning cords or the marks left by same round both of his upper arms have been retouched to look like qato bracelets [See P.99958.VH for such pinioning marks]. See also P.87301.VH, P.87337.VH, P.99956.VH and P.99958.VH.
Circa 1873-1874. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka; Vitilevu Highland

Cultural Affliation

Kai Colo

Named Person

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 related print with the same background, P.87301.VH, is published on the National Library of Australia website with the attribution to Francis Dufty. The Photographer and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 9/3/2012]

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be the original image at MAA from which the associated photographs have been derived from. [JD 25/1/2012]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund. [A. Nadin, 10/10/2003]