• Title
  Photographic scenes & portraits of Fijian natives, Aborigines of Queensland and Clarence River NSW, British Royalty and the Exhibition Building at Prince Alfred Park
• Call number
  PXA 951
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1870-1875
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  413914
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : 37 images
  
• Physical Description
  52 photographs - cartes de visite - 5.4 x 8.9 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  
  1. Cakobau (i.e. Thakombau) - the King of Fiji
  2. Lydia, his Queen
  3. Ratu Abel, the King's eldest son
  4. Prince Timothy, the King's son and Naval Commander in his uniform
  5. Prince Timothy, the King's son in undress
  6. Ratu Joe, the King's youngest son
  7. His Excellency Maafu, the King's Viceroy
  8. Maafu's son Charley and his cousin
  9. Maafu's son's cousin, in undress (Tongese)
  10. Ratu Draunibaki (i.e. Draunibaka), recently deceased, who was heir-apparent to the throne of Fiji (seated, and) Samson, Chief of Viwa (standing)
  11. Tui Bua, a big chief
  12. Timothy - Fijian chief and son. The tallest and best proportioned man in the whole group
  13. Marika, Fijian, the sole survivor of the late massacre of five white men on board the (probably Oneva) cutter, who swam several miles for his life
  14. Kai (probably Dolo), a heathen and cannibal Fijian
  15. Two of Queen Lydia's waiting maids
  16. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
  17. Union of Albert Edward and Mary souvenir
  19-20. (Exhibition Building, Prince Alfred Park, 1871)
  21. Portrait Gallery (in rudimentary timber shack and adjacent marquee, unidentified rural location)
  22. (Grafton School of Arts)
  23. Cameron's Store
  24. North arm, Clarence River
  25. Susan Island (Clarence River)
  26. A group of Queensland "Gins"
  27. Group of Blacks, Clarence River
  28-41. Unidentified portraits of male Aboriginals, a few wearing kingplates
  42-52. Single and group portraits of unidentified Aboriginals, posed in tribal dress and bush settings, often holding weapons
  53. Title list from original album
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Related Material
  Miscellaneous photographs, between 1870-1919 / various photographers (930933)
• Variant title
  
  Nos. 19-20, 22, 28-53 title designated by cataloguer.
• General note
  
  Titles determined from a list accompanying the photos which was included with the original album
  
  The original album was probably the property of Mr G Earngey, who had an interest in the subject matter of the photos and had an article published in "Science of Man and Australian Anthropological Journal", Vol. 1 #8, September 21, 1898, p.178 (notes from ML file)
  
  Reference sources:
  Pacific Islands Portraits / JW Davidson & Deryck Scarr (editors). New Zealand: AH & AW Reed, 1970
  The King and People of Fiji / Joseph Waterhouse. New Zealand: Pasifika Press, 1997
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824092
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Some images identified on reverse in handwritten pencil or ink
  "Photographed by F H Dufty, Levuka, Ovalau, Fiji Islands" -- stamped on reverse (4-6,7,9, 14,15)
  "From the photographic studio of David Scott, 140 Pitt Street, Sydney" -- stamped on reverse (18)
  "C Drinkwater, 410 George Street, Sydney" -- stamped on reverse (19)
  "Beaufoy Merlin, American & Australasian Photographic Company, 324 George Street, Sydney" -- stamped on reverse (22,25)
  "J W Lindt, Prince Street, Grafton" -- stamped on reverse (28-31,37-40,51,52)
  "Marquis Photographer, George Street, Brisbane" -- stamped on reverse (41,43,44,47-50)
  "F.H. Dufty, Photo., Levuka, Fiji" -- embossed under image (3,10-13)
  "Photographed by Johnstone O'Shannessy & Co." -- stamped under image (18)
  "Design by C.Wagner, Photo: H.Goodes, 328 George Street" -- stamped under image (17)
• Conservation note
  
  Removed from original album (album discarded).
• Creator/Author/Artist
  American & Australasian Photographic Company
  Dufty, Francis H., 1846-1910
  Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Company Limited
  Lindt, J. W. (John William), 1845-1926
  Marquis, Daniel
  Scott, David
  
• Name
  Thakembau
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  girls
  boys
  
• Place
  Clarence River Region (N.S.W.)
  Exhibition Building (Prince Alfred Park, N.S.W.)
  Fiji
  Queensland
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Captured: Early Brisbane photographers and their Aboriginal subjects - Museum of Brisbane. Applies to: nos. 41, 43 - 4, 47, 49
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1112784

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