IDNO

D.153895.VH

Description

On manual listing: "Fiji.
List of Woodcuts.
21. Fishing girl, Ovalau." [typed text and signature of F. J. Hayter, 27/02/1933]

A woodcut of a "Circa 1876 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, from record D.100193.VH, JD 17/11/2022]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Gordon, Arthur J.L. [Original Artist]; ?Roth (Mrs) [Artist]

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1950

Collection Name

von Hügel Collection

Source

Format

Photomechanical Book Illustration

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.153893.VH - D.153980.VH were transferred from the Paper Archive VH1/4/9 (envelope 5), in 2021, and located in a paper folder now numbered C1045/.

P.153893.VH - D.153944.VH and D.156631.VH were located in a blue paper folder now numbered C1045/1.

P.153893.VH - D.153900.VH were found together in a paper folder, now numbered C1045/1/1.