IDNO

P.99992.VH

Description

Kai Colo chief - ?brother to Nabukatavatava [P.99987.VH]. See P.87325.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Head and shoulders studio portrait of an untamed Kai Colo or Vitilevu highlander, obviously close kin to Nabukatavatava of the Koroqaqa - see P.87203 & P.87204. He is wearing a whale ivory saunidaliga ear ornament in the slit and distended lobe of his right ear, and a necklace strung with two rows of white trade beads. Early 1870s. [Fergus Clunie, 26/9/2003, from record P.87300.VH, JD 1/12/2011]

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 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.

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