Rapanui man of Easter Island. In feather headdress, long pierced earlobes, nua mahute cloak of woven tapa fibres, and net skirt with belt. Holding a large wooden club. Homme de l'Isle de Paques. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792.

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