IDNO

D.153975.VH

Description

Pen and ink drawing by Arthur J.L. Gordon of a thatched house, rectangular in shape, and one of the houses in the interior of the fortified Armed Native Constabulary camp at Nasaucoko in the western highlands of Vitilevu during Sir Arthur Gordon’s “Little War” of 1876, which crushed the last vestiges of highland independence and in so doing effectively converted the so-called rebel tribes to Christianity. This house on the raised mound or yavu is almost certainly that of Walter Carew, the commissioner for Colo. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, description based on record, JD 27/11/2022]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; West Viti Levu; ?Tubuniwai River; ?Sigatoka River; Waitabucake Tributary; Nasaucoko

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Walter Carew

Photographer

Gordon, Arthur J.L. [Original Artist]

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

post February 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.