IDNO

P.99985.VH

Description

Studio portraits of three Kai Colo or Vitilevu highlanders of the Koroqaqa tribe, including Nabukatavatava (left), sitting behind three shorn Christians, perhaps of the same stock.
See P.87351.VH for further details. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Studio photograph of three non-Christian Noiemalu highlanders sitting behind three shorn Christian converts, one of whom has his right ear lobe pierced and stretched in accordance with the Fijian religion. All are wearing batinivuaka boar tusk pendants. See P.87203, P.87204, P.87300.VH, P.87307.VH, P.87319.VH, P.87320.VH, P.87325.VH, and associated references. The man at centre front is holding the same Tongan war club as the man at left of P.87320.VH.
early 1870s. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.87351.VH, JD 29/1/2012]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Kai Colo

Named Person

Nabukatavatava (Na Buka Tavatava)

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1870 - 1875

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.

Photographer: This print was provisionally attributed to “?Dufty Brothers, Levuka”, but Dufty’s Levuka studio is recognisable through his use of a wooden chair with turned legs in front of a brocade curtain patterned with a floral design framed by a diamond-shaped outline is also distinct to Dufty’s Levuka studio. This configuration of studio props appears to be used by Dufty between circa 1874 - 1876. The Photographer, Date, and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 20/3/2012]

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