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Title: [View of inhabited valley at Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]
Creator: Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1803 and 1807]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
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Description: Native village with two bamboo dwellings with slanted roofs set on stone foundations; expedition party members among native men and women; dense tropical vegetation with several palm trees; high mountains in distance.
Supplied title. Signature (LR, in ink): G. Langsdorff ad nat(uram) delin(eavit). Handwritten (UL, in ink): Tab VI; (on verso, in pencil): Die Ansicht eines beschützten Thales auf Nukahiwa/Siedlung in Nukahiwa/Kopfjäger [...?]. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German edition: Volume I, Plate 10; text, p. 109; English edition: Volume I, Plate 9; text, p. 126. Inscriptions in German.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: ink and wash 21.5 x 32 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2489p1gg
BANC PIC 1963.002:1009--ffALB
Subject: Discovery & exploration
Dwellings
Expeditions & surveys
Indigenous peoples
Manners & customs
Oceania
Settlements
Voyages to the Pacific

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