Tattooing process on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands

A naked woman receives an ink tattoo on her wrist from a tattoo master on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. The artist uses a sharpened bone with bamboo handle. Another tattooed man enters the grass hut holding a pig's head in payment. Copied from an illustration by Georg Langsdorff in Reise um die Welt, 1812. 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 French Polynesia Friedrich Johann Bertuch Marquesas Islands Natural History Nuku Hiva Payment Picture Book For Children Wrist

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