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Title: [Weapons and household utensils of their habitants of Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]
Creator: Orlowski, Aleksandr (1777-1832), Polish, artist (attributed to)
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1810]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Decorative arrangement of clubs, arrows, spear, paddles, scepters, jars, fans, skull, necklace, etc. Probably done in St. Petersburg by Orloffsky after on-the-spot drawings by Langsdorff.
Supplied title. Handwritten (UL, in ink): VII. Ref. note: Langsdorff; German edition: Vol. I, Plate 12; text, p. 148; not in English edition.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: ink and wash 41.9 x 26.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf6m3nb7ns
BANC PIC 1963.002:1011--ffALB
Subject: Arms & armaments
Clothing & dress
Discovery & exploration
Equipment
Expeditions & surveys
Oceania
Voyages to the Pacific

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