IDNO

D.153926.VH

Description

On Manual listing: "Fiji.
List of Woodcuts.
22. Profile of Vakasovoi, from the town of Mathuata, Vanua Levu." [typed text signed and dated F.J. Hayter, 27/02/1933]

A woodblock of a drawing probably by probably by Arthur J.L. Gordon? based on Francis Dufty's studio portrait of an ovisa (officer) or sotia (soldier) of the Armed Native Constabulary. The back of his nead an neck is covered by a curtain of lime-bleached tobe ringlets. At his throat is a batinivuaka boar tusk pendant. He is wearing a coarse blue A.N.C. issue pullover shirt with elbow-length sleeves and a snake-buckled A.N.C. belt above his fringed white barkcloth waist sash.
Circa 1876.
See photograph P.87383.VH. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003, from record P.87383.VH, JD 24/11/2022]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Ovalau Island; Levuka; Vanua Levu; Macuata

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

?Vakasovoi; ?Sergeant Tevita Madigibuli

Photographer

After Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka) [Original photographer]; ?Gordon, Arthur J.L. [Artist]

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

Circa 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.