Native man of Mangareva, Gambier Islands, Polynesia. Ile Gambier. In plant-leaf skirt, with geometrical tattoos over his torso and limbs, brandishing a cudgel. After an illustration by Frederick William Beechey, Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific. (Mislabeled Chaco.) Handcoloured stipple engraving on steel by Choubard after an illustration by Leopold Massard from Collection de portraits et costumes des differens peuples qui habitent les cinq parties du monde, Armand-Aubree, Paris, 1837.

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