Title:
[Inside hut, Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]
Creator/Contributor:
Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlief (1769-1857), German, artist (artist)
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1010--ffALB
Format:
drawing on paper: ink and wash
10.4 x 14.9 cm., on mount 12.4 x 18.2 cm.
Content/Description:
Nude recumbent woman and children in interior of elaborately decorated hut; tattoo master kneels to tattoo her hand; tattooed
man enters door, carrying hog head. Hog head represents feast thrown by husband on occasion of his wife being tattooed (women
in this culture were usually tattooed up to their wrists only).
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (LR, in ink): Dr. Tilesius; (LR, below signature): der page 138; (on verso): Das Innere einer
Hütte von Nukahiwan. Langsdorff--German ed.: Vol. I, Plate 11; text, p. 111; English edition: Vol. I, Plate 10; text, p. 127.
Inscriptions in German.
Subjects:
Children;
Clothing & dress;
Discovery & exploration;
Dwellings;
Expeditions & surveys;
Indigenous peoples;
Interiors;
Manners & customs;
Oceania;
Voyages to the Pacific;
Women
Genre/Format:
Travel sketches;
Wash drawings