EditorialCarved wooden statues of gods from Rawak Island near Waigeo, Papua New Guinea. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, cir...
EditorialNatives of the island of Papua (New Guinea): coastal dwellers with hair combs and body scarification at top, and natives of Rawak island off Waigeo. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abb...
EditorialNatives of the island of Papua (New Guinea): coastal dwellers with hair combs and body scarification at top, and natives of Rawak island off Waigeo. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abb...
EditorialNatives grilling fish, cutting a coconut and killing a snake on Rawak Island near Waigeo, Papua New Guinea. In the background a tomb with skulls arranged outside. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Corsi after Alphonse Pellion from Giulio Ferrario's...
EditorialMan of Rawak Island near Waigeo, Papua New Guinea, making a fire. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature: The Asiatic Islands and New Holland, R. Ackermann, London, 1824.
EditorialPsammoperca waigiensis, Print, Psammoperca waigiensis, the Waigieu seaperch or Waigeo barramundi, is a species of marine fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes. The only species of genus Psammoperca, it is native to tropical coastal waters from th...
EditorialVue d'une pagode du havre offak, ile Waigiou (Waigeo, Indonesia.). Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825, sous le ministère de S. E. M. le marquis d...
EditorialCarved wooden statues of gods from Rawak Island near Waigeo, Papua New Guinea. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, cir...
EditorialNatives of the island of Papua (New Guinea): coastal dwellers with hair combs and body scarification at top, and natives of Rawak island off Waigeo. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abb...