Natives 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 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.

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