IDNO

D.153905.VH

Description

On Manual listing: "Fiji.
List of Woodcuts.
3. Thokombau's quarters at Bau." [typed text signed and dated F.J. Hayter, 27/02/1933]

A woodblock of “Thakombau’s compound, MBAU island”. The compound consists of a thatched rectangular house and a breadfruit? tree, surrounded by a reed fence, with an outrigger canoe in the foreground. [JD 17/11/2022]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Near Viti Levu; Bau Island [Mbau]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

After Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka) [Original photographer]

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron); Hayter, F.J. [Book editor]

Date

27 February 1933

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.

D.153901.VH - D.153944.VH were found together in a paper folder, now numbered C1045/1/2.