IDNO

P.99969.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty studio portrait of a man in Christian warrior garb, with a cock’s tail feather and ornamental comb in his hair, and a batinivuaka or boar tusk pendant at this throat, and holding a gata club. He has a qato or lavei bracelet made from a trochus or sici shell above his left elbow, and a fringed white barkcloth vesa round his upper right arm, and wears a fringed white barkcloth iwabale or shoulder sash. His old time malo loincloth is hidden beneath his fringed white barkcloth waist sash and pandanus leaf liku overskirt. His calf muscles are bound with beaded vesasausauwai wrappings. Notice the rows of cicatrices on his upper left arm.
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. [A. Nadin, 13/10/2003]