IDNO

P.99991.VH

Description

Kai Colo chief. See P.4116.ACH1, P.87345.VH, P.87330.VH, and P.87339.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Cropped studio portrait of a seated untamed “big head” Kai Colo or Viti Levu highlander wearing a malo loincloth, and with his hairdressed in a traditional style that have yet, in their case, to be censored by the Wesleyans. The man wears a white shell necklace and a civa breast-plate, the ornamental strings of which are studded with white shells or shell beads, and qato or lavei bracelets, cut from the sici or trochus shell, above the elbow.
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.

Publication: A carte-de-visit of the same man ( (and duplicate of P.87204., P.99981.VH, and P.109436.) is held at the State Library of Victoria, reference H2005.34/1090, with the following information:
Title: [Studio portraits of Fijians by F. & A. Dufty, Fiji] [picture] / F. & A. Dufty.
Author/Creator: Dufty, F. & A.
Date(s): [ca. 1868-ca. 1885]
Description: 8 photographic prints on carte de visite mounts : albumen silver ; 11 x 7 cm.
Copyright status: This work is out of copyright.
Index terms: Australia; Francis and Alfred Dufty; studio portraits; Fiji; Fijians
Notes: Title assigned by cataloguer.
Dufty Bros. operated from Fiji between 1870's and 1880's. Ref.: Australians behind the camera, directory of early Australian photographers, 1841-1945 / Sandy Barrie, 2002.
Photographer printed on verso of H2005.34/1085-87, 1089: F. & A. Dufty / Photographers / Levuka / Fiji.
Photographer printed on verso of H2005.34/1085-88, 1090-92: F. & A. Dufty / Photographers / Levuka and Suva / Fiji.
Contents/Summary: Three men, two sitting, one in centre standing and holding a weapon shaped like a sword but made of wood, all whole-length, facing camera, in native costume
Source/Donor: Gift of Mr John Etkins; 2005.
[Source: http://search.slv.vic.gov.au, JD 12/3/2012]

Photographer: This print was provisionally attributed to “?Dufty Brothers, Levuka”, but the related print, P.4116.ACH1, is described as been taken by Dufty. This is consistent with the style and props used in the image. The rlated image is also published on ‘www.justpacific.com’ in the section concerning the photographs of the Dufty Brothers. The Photographer field has been amended accordingly. [JD 9/3/2012]

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