IDNO

P.99975.VH

Description

F.H. Dufty studio portrait of a Fijian man wearing Christian cerenmonial or war dress, with a liku overskirt masking his malo loincloth, buttocks and thighs from the waist down. He has an ornamental comb in his hair, a batinivuaka boar tusk pendant with beaded strings at his throat, and is holding a gata club. His upper arms and calves are braced by vesasausauwai wrappings fringed with trade beads, and he has a chiefly iwabale shoulder sash and fringed white barkcloth maloyara or train looped to the girdle of his malo.
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 27/1/2012]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund. [A. Nadin, 13/10/2003]