Native American man of Tierra del Fuego, South America

Native American man of Tierra del Fuego, South America. In sealskin cloak and loincloth, leather shoes, his body painted in red. Armed with bow and quiver of arrows. Perhaps of the extinct Yahgan or Selk'nam people. Sauvage de la Terre de Feu. 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 Arrows Body Paint Bordeaux Encyclopedia Of Voyages Encyclopedie Des Voyages Enlightenment Ethnography Eurocentric Genocide Imperialism J. Laroque Jacques Grasset De Saint-sauveur Leather Shoes Loincloth Native American Noble Savage Quiver Sealskin South America

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