EditorialTaawattaa. Journal of a Cruise made to the Pacific Ocean by C. Bradford & Inskeep: Philadelphia, 1815. Portrait of Taawattaa, a priest. Possibly a native of what Captain Porter described as Nooaheevah or Madison island, now known as Nuku Hiva in the Ma...
EditorialThe Japanese army takes the enemy fortress at Pyongyang. . Heijō kōgeki waga gun tekirui o nuku. September, 1894. Source: 16126.d.3.(23). Language: Japanese.
EditorialMorai or cemetery with carved wooden idols on the island of Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, Polynesia, circa 1800. Tattooed natives show a Russian sailor a tomb, while another attaches white cotton fabric to coconut poles. Handcoloured copperplate engrav...
EditorialYoung girl with headdress, necklace, shift and feather fan, with tattoos on her arms and legs from Nuku Hiva island (Madison), French Polynesia. Handcoloured woodcut by Vangauberche from Auguste Wahlen's "Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples ...