Naked Chamorro men and women mending and casting nets as they fish on the coast of the Mariana islands. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Illustration from Freycinet's "Voyage autour du monde," 1824.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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