IDNO

D.153900.VH

Description

On Manual listing: "Fiji.
List of Woodcuts.
17. Native hut thatched with Makita leaves." [typed text signed and dated F.J. Hayter, 27/02/1933]

Woodblock based on F.H. Dufty's photograph of a valerausina or western Vitilevu type house, built on a high stone-faced yavu or mound symbolic of exalted spiritual and authoritative status, with a cleated ramp leading up to its doorway. Arthur J.L. Gordon, the governor’s private secretary, lounging in the doorway with Nevil Gordon, the governor’s tomboy daughter. Captain Louis Knollys, the governor's ADC, standing by ramp. Two of the seated Fijian men have their hair dressed with lime and ashes.
See P.99779.VH for a roadside view of the same building. P.99799.VH for its location.
1875 - 1876. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, description from P.99784.VH, JD 27/11/2022]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Viti Levu

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

After Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka) [Original photographer]; ?Roth (Mrs) [Artist]

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

circa 1875 - 1876; 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.