IDNO

D.153940.VH

Description

A woodblock of a circa 1876 painting in the style and taste of Arthur J. L. Gordon of Government House, Nasova, Ovalau. A young Fijian woman with lime-bleached hair dressed and equipped for net fishing of the kind conducted by groups of women. She is wearing a black likusausauwai or likuwaloa skirt, favoured for its water-shedding qualities, with a large noke fishing basket woven of coconut leaf at her right hip. (Noke were only used by women and girls, and were tied round the hips by a waist cord, which is not shown in the painting.) Over her shoulder is a lawavakaicua fishing net, with its flanking stick handles, fine wayaka netting, and with shell sinkers along its bottom edge. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, description from D.100193.VH, JD 27/11/2022]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji

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

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.

Publication: Image published in Lodder, Matt, 2022. 'Painted People' (Harper Collins Publisher, London). The book is a history of tattooing spanning the globe and thousands of years. [JD 23/08/2022]