IDNO

D.153922.VH

Description

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

Two rough woodblocks of A.J.L. Gordon’s sketch of the matanikoro (gateway) of the fortified Armed Native Constabulary camp at Nasaucoko in the western highlands of Vitilevu during Sir Arthur Gordon’s “Little War” of 1876, which crushed the last vestiges of highland independence and in so doing effectively converted the so-called rebel tribes to Christianity.
The matanikoro (gateway) is fortified in the traditional Fijian manner, with a platform above it and with fenced sides. The palisading is also traditional, with bamboo, which is plentiful thereabouts, being used for the uprights. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, description based on record, JD 27/11/2022]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; West Viti Levu; ?Tubuniwai River; ?Sigatoka River; Waitabucake Tributary; Nasaucoko

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

post February 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.