Dancing woman on Tahiti. She wears a hat, a long gown with highly puckered ruffs of tapa attached to the back, tassels hanging from the waist, feathery pompons covering the breasts. Danseuse a Taiti (Oceanie). After John Webber’s illustration A Dance in Otaheite from The Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, 1784. Handcoloured woodcut by Edouard Vermocken after John Webber 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. Wahlen was the pseudonym
Dancing woman on Tahiti. She wears a hat, a long gown with highly puckered ruffs of tapa attached to the back, tassels hanging from the waist, feathery pompons covering the breasts. Danseuse a Taiti (Oceanie). After John Webber’s illustration A Dance in Otaheite from The Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, 1784. Handcoloured woodcut by Edouard Vermocken after John Webber 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. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium.
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