Fijian warriors, 187- or 188-/ photographers F. & A. Dufty

SPF/1655

fonds

187- or 188-

Graphic Materials, Photographs

913290

1 photographic print - 10.5 x 6.4 cm - carte de visite

Composite photograph of 49 cartes de visite portraits of Fijian royalty and chiefs

Out of copyright: created before 1955

Transferred from SPF/Fijians (BM), November 2010

Indigenes des differents districts de la Caledonie -- in French in ink on the reverse

Carte B : ""Big head" mountain men (kai colo), probably from Namosi, wearing the huge wigs of human hair (ulumate) for which they were famous. These warriors were justifiaby feared by their coastal neighbours, who retaliated by stigmatising their name to mean "bushwhackers". The men pictured here wear only malo loincloths. The seated men wear pigs' tusks (bati ni vuaka). The standing man wears a civa pearl-shell and holds a rootstock club with a fibre-bound handle (waka vividrasa). (See Ewins 1982 pp.34-36)"

Reference: The Fiji photographs of F.H. and A.W.B. Dufty. http://www.justpacific.com/fiji/fijiphotos/dufpics/index.html (accessed November 30, 2010)

Carte C is of two similar warriors to carte B