EditorialEaster Island, called Rapa Nui by its Polynesian in-habitants, is a volcanic island 3,790 kms west of the Chilean coast. Cattle and horses graze in the plain between the three extinct volcanos.
EditorialNui and Chiyo from Daimon Fujiya performing the hobby-horse dance, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)". Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: ...
EditorialNui and Chiyo from Daimon Fujiya performing the hobby-horse dance, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)". Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: ...
EditorialThe Entertainer Tamino and the Serving Girl Nui of the Sumiyoshiya. Eishosai Choki; Japanese, active c. 1790s-early 1800s. Date: 1787-1797. Dimensions: 37.5 x 25.9 cm (14 5/8 x 10 in.). Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan.
EditorialNatives of Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Man and woman in hats with long pierced ear lobes. Couple rowing an outrigger canoe or vaka. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso after William Hodges from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all...
EditorialOutrigger canoe of Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Illustration by Blondela from Jean Francois Laperouse?s Voyage. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno?s Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccol...
EditorialHandle for a Fly Whisk (Tahiri), 18th century, Tahiti, Society Islands, Maohi (Tahitian), Ivory, coconut husk fiber, H. 1 5/8 x W. 1 3/8 x D. 11 3/4 in. (4.1 x 3.5 x 29.8 cm), Bone/Ivory-Implements, This elaborately carved ivory flywhisk handle was onc...
EditorialArtist: Cham, French, 18181879, Quien quien le vent a change cte nui from Le?Charivari, Lithograph, Image: 23.2 ? 25.8 cm (9 1/8 ? 10 3/16in.); Sheet: 24.9 ? 36.2 cm (9 13/16 ? 14?1/4in.), French, 19th?century, Works on Paper -?Prints.
EditorialEaster Island, called Rapa Nui by its Polynesian in-habitants, is a volcanic island 3,790 kms west of the Chilean coast. In the far background the village of Hanga Roa, the only settlement on the island with roughly 3.000 inhabitants.
EditorialMonuments on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Artist Gaspard Duche de Vancy sketching a Moai while a native steals his hat. From Jean Francois Laperouse's Voyage. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno?s Col...
EditorialNative man of Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824. From an illustration by Louis Choris in Otto von Kotzebue's Picturesque voyage around the wo...
EditorialThe Entertainer Tamino and the Serving Girl Nui of the Sumiyoshiya. Eishosai Choki; Japanese, active c. 1790s-early 1800s. Date: 1787-1797. Dimensions: 37.5 x 25.9 cm (14 5/8 x 10 in.). Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan.
EditorialNui and Chiyo from Daimon Fujiya performing the hobby-horse dance, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)". Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: ...
EditorialFemale kimono with flying duck, Kimono for a woman with the decoration over the entire surface of a flying white duck against a black background with concentric white lines. Black crepe silk (chirimen) with an embroidered decoration (sashi-nui). White ...
EditorialNui and Chiyo from Daimon Fujiya performing the hobby-horse dance, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)". Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: ...
EditorialFusus sulcatus, Print, Penion sulcatus is a species of medium-to-large predatory marine snail or whelk, commonly called the northern siphon whelk or kakara nui in Maori, belonging to the true whelk family Buccinidae.
EditorialNui and Chiyo from Daimon Fujiya performing the hobby-horse dance, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)". Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: ...
EditorialNui and Chiyo from Daimon Fujiya performing the hobby-horse dance, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)". Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: ...
EditorialThe Entertainer Tamino and the Serving Girl Nui of the Sumiyoshiya. Eishosai Choki; Japanese, active c. 1790s-early 1800s. Date: 1787-1797. Dimensions: 37.5 x 25.9 cm (14 5/8 x 10 in.). Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan.
EditorialCaptain James Cook and natives examining the Moai statues on Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844.
EditorialNatives of Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Man and woman in hats with long pierced ear lobes. Couple rowing an outrigger canoe or vaka. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso after William Hodges from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all...
EditorialOutrigger canoe of Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Illustration by Blondela from Jean Francois Laperouse?s Voyage. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno?s Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccol...
EditorialMonuments on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Artist Gaspard Duche de Vancy sketching a Moai while a native steals his hat. From Jean Francois Laperouse's Voyage. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno?s Col...
EditorialHandle for a Fly Whisk (Tahiri), 18th century, Tahiti, Society Islands, Maohi (Tahitian), Ivory, coconut husk fiber, H. 1 5/8 x W. 1 3/8 x D. 11 3/4 in. (4.1 x 3.5 x 29.8 cm), Bone/Ivory-Implements, This elaborately carved ivory flywhisk handle was onc...
EditorialCaptain James Cook and natives examining the Moai statues on Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844.
EditorialNatives of Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Man and woman in hats with long pierced ear lobes. Couple rowing an outrigger canoe or vaka. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso after William Hodges from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all...
EditorialOutrigger canoe of Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Illustration by Blondela from Jean Francois Laperouse?s Voyage. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno?s Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccol...
EditorialMonuments on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Artist Gaspard Duche de Vancy sketching a Moai while a native steals his hat. From Jean Francois Laperouse's Voyage. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno?s Col...
EditorialBeyond the rim of Rano Raku volcano are the small islands of Motu nui, Motu ity and Motu kaokao which played an important part in the Birdman-cult. Young boys had to descend the sheer slope of the volcano and fetch an egg of the sea-swallow from the is...
EditorialEaster Island, called Rapa Nui by its Polynesian in-habitants, is a volcanic island 3,790 kms west of the Chilean coast. In the far background the village of Hanga Roa, the only settlement on the island with roughly 3.000 inhabitants.