Male dancer of the Sandwich Isles, now Hawaii

Male dancer of the Sandwich Isles, now Hawaii. In makini, a gourd helmet and mask with feather crest and tapa strips, short cape and loincloth. He holds an uli uli, a gourd shaker decorated with feathers, and wears flint and dog-teeth rattles on his knees. Adapted from sketches by John Webber, Danseur des Isles Sandwich. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792

1792 Anthropology Aquatint Bordeaux Encyclopedia Of Voyages Encyclopedie Des Voyages Enlightenment Ethnography Eurocentric Flint Gourd Imperialism J. Laroque Jacques Grasset De Saint-sauveur Knees Loincloth Noble Savage Rattle Sandwick

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