IDNO

P.99984.VH

Description

Studio portraits of three Kai Colo or Vitilevu highlanders. For other views of the same men, and further detail, see: P.87318.VH, P.4116.ACH1, P.87343 P.87344.VH, P.87345, P.99978.VH, P.99979.VH, etc.
Circa 1869 - 1871. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Studio portrait of three seated untamed “big head” Kai Colo or Viti Levu highlanders wearing malo loincloths, and with their hairdressed in traditional styles that have yet, in their case, to be censored by the Wesleyans. The man at left wears a batinivuaka boar tusk pendant with what looks like shell-beaded strings attached. The man at right, with the lime-bleached hair, a batinivuaka with what looks like bead-studded sausauwai ties. All of the men wear qato or lavei bracelets, cut from the sici or trochus shell, above the elbow. The man seated on the right wears a white shell necklace and a civa breast-plate, the ornamental strings of which are studded with white shells or shell beads.
Circa 1869-1871. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.4116.ACH1, updated JD 5/11/2011]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Kai Colo

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1869 - 1871

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 commercial photograph appears more than once in the MAA Collections. There is no original negative. [JD 29/1/2012]

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