Chiefs of the Sandwich islands (Hawaii): Kiaimoukou surnamed Cox, Chief of Maui Island (center), a tattooed chief of Oahu Island (left) and officer to Kiaimoukou (right). 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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