Tattooed warrior of Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands

Tattooed warrior of Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands (Nukahiwa). Noukahiwa (Oceanie). Standing portrait of a 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. The same motif is tattooed on his thighs. Copied from a portrait in Captain A.J. von Krusenstern's Voyage Around the World, 1813. Handcoloured woodcut by Pannemaker and Lisbet after an illustration by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau 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

Picture No

14017170

Media ID

46644792

Size

4542px x 6869px (4.7MB)

Credit

©Florilegius/Mary Evans

Source

Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von T