Image / [Figures used in tattooing, Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]

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Title: [Figures used in tattooing, 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: Geometric animal-like patterns used in Nukahivan tattooing; motif on inset is detail of Enata motif (figures 5 and 13).
Supplied title. Signature (LR): G. Langsdorff ad natur[am] delineav[it]. Handwritten (UL, in ink): Tab IV. Inset piece (LC) with drawing and inscription [dieses wird noch auf der 4ten Platte zugesezt?]. Ref. note: German edition: Volume I, Plate 9; text, p. 105; English edition: Volume I, Plate 8; text, p. 122. Inscriptions in German.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: ink and wash 38.4 x 22.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9p301318
BANC PIC 1963.002:1008--ffALB
Subject: Discovery & exploration
Expeditions & surveys
Indigenous peoples
Manners & customs
Oceania
Voyages to the Pacific

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