Title:
[Young Nukahivan not completely tattooed, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]
Creator/Contributor:
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist (attributed to) (artist)
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1007--ffALB
Format:
drawing on paper: ink and wash
39.1 x 26.7 cm.
Content/Description:
Young native male with richly tattooed body, holding skull container in left hand and spear in right, stands on shore looking
toward sea.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in pencil): Nukahiwa. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German edition: Volume I, Plate 8; text: p.
101; English edition: Volume I, Plate 7; text: p. 119. Inscriptions in German.
Subjects:
Arms & armaments;
Clothing & dress;
Discovery & exploration;
Expeditions & surveys;
Indigenous peoples;
Oceania;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Travel sketches;
Wash drawings