IDNO

D.153930.VH

Description

On Manual listing: "Fiji.
List of Woodcuts.
24. (Chiefs daughter) Andi Samanunu..., cooking. Thakombaus wife, daughter of a chief of a Rewa district." [typed text signed and dated F.J. Hayter, 27/02/1933]
"Viti L." [added in black ink]

Woodblock of Arthur J.L. Gordon’s sketch of Yadi Samanunu, a chief’s daughter, drawn at Nabulibuligone in the highlands of Vitilevu in 1875. Yadi Samanunu is wearing a liku skirt and has a qato bracelet made from a sici or trochus shell above the left elbow, and a necklace with large beads of unknown material round her neck. Her lime-bleached hair is dressed in the unmarried woman’s style in the highlands. From the look of her, she may, as a chief's daughter, be tabusiga - literally “forbidden the sun”, meaning kept indoors during daylight hours to lighten her complexion. She is sitting next to a matadravu or hearth bounded by squared hardwood slabs, in which a kuro cooking pot from the Ra or northeast Vitilevu coast is steaming, perched upon sue potstands. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.99827.VH, JD 24/11/2022]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Viti Levu; Nabulibuligone

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Yadi Samanunu

Photographer

Gordon, Arthur J.L. [Artist]; ?Roth (Mrs) [Artist]

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

post 1875; 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.

Bibliographical Reference: See A.J.L. Gordon, 1875. An Account of Mr Walter Carew’s Tour of the Island of Viti Levu, Domodomo, 1986, 4 (2), 55-81. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003]

Named Person: It is noted that Yadi Samanunu’s Christian name is Litia for print P.99835.VH. The Description and Named Person field have been amended accordingly. [JD 7/3/2012]