Title:
[Figures used in tattooing, Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]
Creator/Contributor:
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist (artist)
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1008--ffALB
Format:
drawing on paper: ink and wash
38.4 x 22.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Geometric animal-like patterns used in Nukahivan tattooing; motif on inset is detail of Enata motif (figures 5 and 13).
Notes/Inscriptions:
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.
Subjects:
Discovery & exploration;
Expeditions & surveys;
Indigenous peoples;
Manners & customs;
Oceania;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Travel sketches;
Wash drawings