IDNO

P.99974.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty studio portrait of a Christian “soldier” or sotia of the Armed Native Constabulary in review or fighting dress. Most details of his dress, other than the cock tail feathers in his hair and his beaded necklace, plus the fact that he is wearing a smoked rather than white barkcloth iwabale and a patterned rather than a plain malo loincloth, concur with P.99970.VH, P.99972.VH, and P.99968.VH. [Plain buckled cartridge belts of the type he is wearing were also issued to the A.N.C.].
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]