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Description
Note: Gleiches Motiv in etwas anderer Ausführung ist publiziert unter dem Titel: "Sterbender Häuptling, umgeben von den Schädeln seiner erschlagenen Feinde." (Bilder-Tafeln zur Länder- und Völker-Kunde mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der evangelischen Missionsarbeit. Herausgegeben von dem Calwer Verlagsverein. Calw & Stuttgart. 1883: Tf. 169, 6). Note translation: More or less the same image is published under the title "Dying chief surrounded by the skulls of his defeated enemies" in (Bilder-Tafeln zur Länder- und Völker-Kunde mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der evangelischen Missionsarbeit. Herausgegeben von dem Calwer Verlagsverein. Calw & Stuttgart. 1883: Table 169, 6).
Type
image
Format
print, wood engraving or line block (HD) 13.4 x 8.4 cm.
Anthropomorphic representation Chief m Ear plug Feather Fence Headgear Skull (human) Portrait m Sacral object Sacral place Statue Textile Wind instrument Bone Dying person
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