Costumes of the people of the Pacific, 18th century. Polynesian man and woman of Tahiti wearing tapa bark-fabric tiputa cloaks 1, Hawaiian man and woman in tapa bark-fabric skirts, the man a dancer with an 'uli'uli feather rattle 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
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