IDNO

D.100193.VH

Description

Circa 1876 watercolour painting in the style and taste of Arthur J. L. Gordon of Government House, Nasova, Ovalau. A young Fijian woman with lime-bleached hair dressed and equipped for net fishing of the kind conducted by groups of women. She is wearing a black likusausauwai or likuwaloa skirt, favoured for its water-shedding qualities, with a large noke fishing basket woven of coconut leaf at her right hip. (Noke were only used by women and girls, and were tied round the hips by a waist cord, which is not shown in the painting.) Over her shoulder is a lawavakaicua fishing net, with its flanking stick handles, fine wayaka netting, and with shell sinkers along its bottom edge. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Gordon, Arthur J.L. [Original Artist]

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa ?1876

Collection Name

von Hügel Collection

Source

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Format

Painting

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.100077.VH to P.100194.VH were in the paper archive envelope now numbered C540/. This was formerly kept in paper archive Large Box G; VH1/4/5. It has now been transferred to the photo archive. A note regarding the family of Ratu Seru Cakobau has been returned to the Paper Archive.

Publication: Image published in Lodder, Matt, 2022. 'Painted People' (Harper Collins Publisher, London). The book is a history of tattooing spanning the globe and thousands of years. [JD 23/08/2022]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund.