item details
NameElderly Man with Fue
ProductionThomas Andrew; photographer; 1890-1910
Classificationphotographic prints, portraits, black-and-white prints
Dimensions14, 20
Registration NumberO.001379/01
Credit lineGift of Alison Beckett and Robert McPherson, 1996
Overview
Portrait of an unknown man standing on the grass outside a fale (traditional house) with the wall mats rolled down. He is wearing a printed cotton lavalava, a flowery lei and no upper garments. Looking slightly to the viewers' right he is leaning on a long stick and is holding a fue (flywhisk) - the sign of a tulafale (orator chief).