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 ...
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 ...
EditorialNative of Nuku Hiva with spear and skull. Young man of the Marquesas Islands not completely tattooed. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824. After an illustration by Wilhel...
EditorialJean Baptiste Capri, a French deserter who lived on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, with tattoos. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824. After an illustration in G. H. von La...
EditorialNative man of distinction from Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, with club, fan, loincloth and full body tattoos. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824. After an illustration b...
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...
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 ...