Title:
[Weapons and household utensils of their habitants of Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]
Creator/Contributor:
Orlowski, Aleksandr (1777-1832), Polish, artist (attributed to) (artist)
Date:
[ca. 1810]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1011--ffALB
Format:
drawing on paper: ink and wash
41.9 x 26.5 cm.
Content/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.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (UL, in ink): VII. Ref. note: Langsdorff; German edition: Vol. I, Plate 12; text, p. 148; not
in English edition.
Subjects:
Arms & armaments;
Clothing & dress;
Discovery & exploration;
Equipment;
Expeditions & surveys;
Oceania;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Travel sketches;
Wash drawings