IDNO

D.153919.VH

Description

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

A pen and ink drawing based on F.H. Dufty's photograph of the house of Yadi Arieta Kuila, widow of Ratu Timoce Vakaruru, Qaranivalu of Naitasiri, at Navuso, Naitasiri, on the Wailevu or Rewa River, a few miles upstream of Nausori. Yadi Kuila was a daughter of Ratu Seru Cakobau, Vunivalu of Bau, and a close friend and foster nau (literally “mummy”) of Baron von Hugel when he was in Fiji in 1875-77. The tall stepped mound of the yavu, faced in this case with slabs of black balabala or tree fern (Cyathea lunulata) trunk instead of stone, and the cleated ramps leading up to the multiple doorways proclaim this as a place of high spiritual status and authority. The Armed Native Constabulary sentry standing outside suggests that Walter Carew, the commissioner for Colo, may be conducting a meeting inside.
1875 - 1876. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, description from P.99780.VH, JD 27/11/2022]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Viti Levu; Rewa River; Naitasiri; Navuso

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

After Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka); ?Gordon, Arthur Lewis [Artist]

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

circa 1875 - 1876; 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.