Tattooed warrior of Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands (Nukahiwa). Noukahiwa (Oceanie). Standing portrait of a warrior with his body entirely tattooed. He wears a narrow loin cloth, a headdress incorporating teeth, and a bone necklace. He carries a gourd and a long-handled broad-bladed club whose decoration includes a face. The same motif is tattooed on his thighs. Copied from a portrait in Captain von Krusenstern’s Voyage Around the World, 1813. Handcoloured woodcut by Pannemaker and Lisbet after an illustration by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et
Tattooed warrior of Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands (Nukahiwa). Noukahiwa (Oceanie). Standing portrait of a warrior with his body entirely tattooed. He wears a narrow loin cloth, a headdress incorporating teeth, and a bone necklace. He carries a gourd and a long-handled broad-bladed club whose decoration includes a face. The same motif is tattooed on his thighs. Copied from a portrait in Captain von Krusenstern’s Voyage Around the World, 1813. Handcoloured woodcut by Pannemaker and Lisbet after an illustration by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845.
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