Aborigine people of Tasmania, 1807
Aborigine people of Tasmania, 1807. Paraberi in animal-skin cloak 3 and Ouriaga with scarification to shoulder, hair dyed red 4. The Tasmanian people were exterminated by the British colonists. Copied from portraits by Nicolas-Martin Petit in Francois Peron's Voyage de Decouvertes aux terres Australes, 1807. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1, 200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. published from 1790-1830
Picture No
14009164
Media ID
45795300
Size
7305px x 4482px
(6.1MB)
Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
Source
Nicolas-Martin Petit
