IDNO

D.153951.VH

Description

On Manual listing: "Fiji.
List of Woodcuts.
10. Hill village, Buli buli, Wai ni buka." [typed text signed and dated F.J. Hayter, 27/02/1933]

A pen and ink drawing of Nabulibuligone in the highlands of Vitilevu, drawn by Arthur J.L. Gordon in 1875. A centre-poled house - probably a spirithouse - with a distinctive ‘beehive’ or conical roof, stands amongst conventional eastern Vitilevu houses. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003, from record P.52422.VH, JD 22/11/2022]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; Viti Levu; Nabulibuligone

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Gordon, Arthur Lewis [Artist]

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

post 1875

Collection Name

von Hügel Collection

Source

Format

Drawing

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/.

D.153946.VH - D.153980.VH were wrapped in brown paper, now numbered C1045/2.

D.153946.VH - D.153979.VH were found together in a brown Boots envelope, now numbered C1045/2/1.

Publication: See Gordon, A.J.L., 1875, An Account of Mr Walter Carew's Tour of the Island of Viti Levu, in Domodomo, 9186, 4 (2), pp. 55-81. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003]