Title:
[An inhabitant of the island of Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]
Creator/Contributor:
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist (artist)
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1006--ffALB
Format:
drawing on paper: ink and wash
41.7 x 27.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Standing figure of native man with fully tattooed body holding long club in left hand and fan in right; sketchy landscape
setting. Loin cloth (tschiabu) attached to drawing.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in pencil): [...?] Nukahiwa; (LR, in ink): G.H. Langsdorff ad naturam, del.; (UL, in ink):
Tab II. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German edition: Volume I, Plate 7; text: p. 100; English edition: Volume I, Plate 6; text:
p. 117. Inscriptions in German.
Subjects:
Clothing & dress;
Discovery & exploration;
Expeditions & surveys;
Indigenous peoples;
Oceania;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Portraits;
Travel sketches;
Wash drawings