IDNO

P.99960.VH

Description

Studio photograph of Ratu Koroiravulo, holding what looks like a Melanesian spear, and dressed in a fringed white barkcloth isulu and broad waist sash. Note the photographer’s clamp.
Circa 1869 - 1873. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; ?Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Ratu Koroiravulo

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1869 - 1873

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 Dufty’s Levuka studio is recognisable through the backdrop of foliage, including banana leaves to the right, fringe of leaves at the top, and the pineapple? plant to the left. 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 21/1/2012]

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