IDNO

P.99996.VH

Description

Kai Colo chief of the Koroqaqa. See P.87204 and P.99981.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Cropped studio portrait of an untamed “Kai Colo” or highlander of the “Koro qaqa [Nakoroqaqa?] tribe” in the interior of Vitilevu, seated on a chair. ... The man has a massive and flamboyant pre-Christian hairstyle. At his throat is a doubled trade bead necklace, black beads above white, with a throat pendant with dangling beaded tails. The lanyard worn round his neck has a cord attached to something that is tucked beneath his waistband, possibly an ikalu dwarf coconut-shell whistle, or a set of panpipes. [The latter has been cropped in this print.] ...
Early 1870s. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003, from record P.87204., updated JD 27/11/2011]

Physical Condition: Print mounted onto card.

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka

Cultural Affliation

Kai Colo

Named Person

Photographer

Dufty Brothers, Levuka (Dufty, Francis Herbert)

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.

Publication: Duplicates of this uncropped photograph are on the websites ‘www.pictureaustralia.org’ and ‘www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/pictures/’
‘www.fijimuseum.org.fj/fm-glassplatenegs.htm’. [AN 2/7/2003]

Publication: A carte-de-visite of the same man (and duplicate of P.87204., P.99981.VH, and P.109436.) is also held at the Fiji Museum, with the following information:
“Fiji Hill Tribe warriors with wigs (ulumate) photographed at the Dufty Studio in Suva. Dufty Collection, circa 1890.”
[Source: www.fijimuseum.org.fj/online_exibitions_glassplate_negatives.html, JD 10/3/2012]

Publication: A carte-de-visite of the same man (and duplicate of P.87204., P.99981.VH, and P.109436.) is also held at the National Library of Australia, reference nla.pic-an10975065-12, with the following information:
Creator: Dufty, Francis H., 1846-1910.
Title: Mountaineers from inland Viti Levu (Kai Colo people) [picture] / F.H. Dufty.
Date: between 1870 and 1879.
Extent: 1 photograph : carte de visite ; 8.6 x 5.5 cm.
Context: Part of Dufty, Francis H., 1846-1910. Panorama of Levuka, Fiji, and portraits [picture]
Series: Panorama of Levuka, Fiji, and portraits.
Summary: The two men are wearing wigs of human hair.--Information provided by Dr. R. Ewins; RO8/102782.
Notes: Mounted with a montage of 5 albumen prints forming a panorama, and 11 other carte-de-visite portraits of Fijian and Tongan Chiefs and people.
[Source: www.nla.gov.au, JD 9/3/2012]

Photographer: This print was provisionally attributed to “?Dufty Brothers, Levuka”, but a duplicate print is published on the Ntaional Library of Australia website with the attribution to Francis Dufty. 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]