IDNO

P.99966.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty studio portrait of two part Tongan looking chiefs, both wearing itaubebatinivuaka boar tusk pendants and broad white iwabale shoulder sashes and waist sashes, and both with long jungle cock tail feathers and ornamental combs in their hair. One wears a malo loincloth, girded high in the challenging malowala manner, the other, holding a wakakiakavo club, a cloth isulu skirt.
The man at right has a pattern of cicatrices on his left bicep. Note the photographer’s clamp.
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 26/1/2012]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund. [JD 26/1/2012]