Costumes of Polynesia and Oceania, 1858
Costumes of Polynesia and Oceania, 1858. Inhabitants of Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Islands), tattooed chief in feather headdress and cloak, tattooed woman. Maori men in korowai (feather cloaks) on a carved wooden waka taua (war canoe), New Zealand. Habitants de Nouka-Hiva (Iles Marquises), naturels et pirogue dela Nouvelle Zelande. Handcoloured and sepia-tinted lithograph by Jean-Adolphe Bocquin after an illustration by Auguste Leloir from Elisabeth Muller (pseudonym of Leonie Bedelet)'s Le Monde en Estampes, The World in Prints, Amadee Bedelet, Paris, 1858
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Anthropology Auguste Leloir Elisabeth Muller Ethnography Feather Headdress French Polynesia Imperialism Inhabitants Jean-adolphe Bocquin Le Monde En Estampes Leonie Bedelet Maori Marquesas Islands New Zealand Nuku Hiva Oceania Polynesia Pseudonym Sepia-tinted The World In Prints
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