IDNO

P.99994.VH

Description

Kai Colo chief. See P.4116.ACH1, P.87318.VH, P.99978.VH and P.99984.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Cropped studio portrait of three untamed “big head” Kai Colo or Viti Levu highlanders to show only the man on the right. He is wearing a malo loincloth, and has his hairdressed in traditional styles that have yet, in his case, to be censored by the Wesleyans. The man has lime-bleached hair, and wears a batinivuaka with what looks like bead-studded sausauwai ties. He also wears a qato or lavei bracelet, 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]

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: Uncropped image published in ‘The Fiji Journals of Baron Anatole Von Hugel 1875 - 1877’, edited by Jane Roth and Steven Hooper (1990), plate 36, page 250. [Alex Nadin, 12/02/2003]

Publication: A duplicate carte-de-visit (uncropped) 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]

Publication: A duplicate of this photograph (uncropped) is on the website ‘www.justpacific.com’ in the section concerning the photographs of the Dufty Brothers. [Alex Nadin, 12/02/2003]

Publication: A duplicate of this photograph (uncropped) is on Rod Ewins’ internet site www.justpacific.com:
“Big head” mountain men (kai colo), wearing wigs of human hair (ulumate). These warriors were justifiaby feared by their coastal neighbours, who retaliated by stigmatising their name to mean “bushwhackers”. The men pictured here wear only malo loincloths. The seated men wear pigs’ tusks (bati ni vuaka). The standing man wears a civa pearl-shell and holds a rootstock club with a fibre-bound handle (waka vividrasa). (See Ewins, 1982 pp.34-36).” [Alex Nadin, 12/02/2003]

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