Tattooed warrior of Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands

Tattooed warrior of Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Portrait of a naked male warrior with his body entirely tattooed. He wears a narrow loin cloth, a headdress incorporating teeth, and a bone necklace. He carries a gourd and a long-handled broad-bladed club whose decoration includes a face. Copied from a portrait by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau in Captain Adam von Krusenstern's Voyage Around the World, 1813. 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

1813 Bilderbuch Fur Kinder Carl Bertuch Encyclopedia Engraved Plates Ethnography French Polynesia Friedrich Johann Bertuch Gourd Loin Cloth Mace Marquesas Islands Natural History Nuku Hiva Picture Book For Children

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