Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist (attributed to)
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
[Young Nukahivan not completely tattooed, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Materials:
drawing on paper: ink and wash
Dimensions:
39.1 x 26.7 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1007--ffALB
Subject:
- Arms & armaments
- Clothing & dress
- Discovery & exploration
- Expeditions & surveys
- Indigenous peoples
- Oceania
- Voyages to the
Pacific
- Travel sketches
- Wash drawings
Heading:
Content/Description:
Notes:
Young native male with richly tattooed body, holding skull container in left hand and spear in right, stands on shore looking toward sea.
Heading:
Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in pencil): Nukahiwa. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German edition: Volume I, Plate 8; text: p. 101; English edition: Volume I, Plate 7; text: p. 119. Inscriptions in German.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf300008t 7

[Young Nukahivan not completely tattooed, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]