Portrait of Queen Kaonoe of Hawaii
Queen Kaonoe or Kaou-Onoe of Hawaii. She is shown barebreasted with a headdress, large necklace and tattoos on her face and body. Reine des iles Sandwich. Adapted from a portrati by Jacques Arago ship's artist onboard Freycinet's Uranie. Handcoloured woodcut by Doms after Arago from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium
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Archivist Auguste Wahlen Doms Freycinet Jean-francois-nicolas Loumyer Manners Moeurs Polynesian Pseudonym Woodblock Engraving
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