IDNO

D.153957.VH

Description

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

A pen and ink drawing based on F.H. Dufty photograph's preparations for a magiti (feast) before a chief’s house, with raised, stone-faced yavu and ramps to its doors. The photograph has been simplified to show only one man standing outside the Fijian chief’s vale (house) thatched with Makita leaves in a rectangular shape with extended ridge pole.
The chief's house is on a raised, stone-faced yavu and cleated log ramps to its doors. The house is unusual for the little “porches” about its doorways, which have not been thatched, exposing expanses of reeded (or in this case split bamboo?) walling.
Waikava, southern Vanualevu, 1876. [Fergus Clunie, 26/7/2003, description based on record P.87254.VH, JD 24/11/2022]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; South Vanua Levu; Waikava; Fawn Harbour

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

After Dufty, Francis Herbert (Dufty Brothers, Levuka) [Original photographer]

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

November 1876

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.