Melanesian man of Vanikoro, Solomon Islands, Pacific Ocean. He wears a bandana, nose piercing, loincloth, necklace, armlets and anklets. He holds a bow and poisoned arrows. Naturel de Vanikoro (Oceanie). Adapted from an illustration by Louis Auguste de Sainson in Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage de la corvette l’Astrolabe. Handcoloured woodcut by AC after Louis Auguste de Sainson 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-
Melanesian man of Vanikoro, Solomon Islands, Pacific Ocean. He wears a bandana, nose piercing, loincloth, necklace, armlets and anklets. He holds a bow and poisoned arrows. Naturel de Vanikoro (Oceanie). Adapted from an illustration by Louis Auguste de Sainson in Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage de la corvette l’Astrolabe. Handcoloured woodcut by AC after Louis Auguste de Sainson 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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