IDNO

D.156656.MAT

Description

On manual listing for duplicate D.153901.VH : "Fiji.
List of Woodcuts.
1. Forest scene, native path, Tavinui, between Somo Somo & Wainiki." [typed text and signature of F. J. Hayter, 27/02/1933]

Lithograh print of a village scene in Fiji, with Mount Voma in the background. Four people stand in the foreground wearing liku (grass / fibre skirts). Other figures in the scene are seated on the ground beside bure (wood-and-straw houses). The village is surrounded by tall palm trees and tropical forest. [GO 12/12/2022]

Place

Oceania; Fiji; Viti Levu; Mount Voma; Taveuni; Near Wairiki; Near Somosomo

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 1875 - 1877; 27 February 1933

Collection Name

Museum Archives Transfer

Source

Format

Drawing

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.156647.MAT - P.156864.MAT and P.176654.MAT - P.176687.MAT were found unaccessioned in a red folder box in the Paper Archives and transferred to the Photograph Collections and numbered C1048/ [JD 28/08/2025]