Carved wooden statues of gods from Rawak Island near Waigeo, Papua New Guinea. 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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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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