Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
[Figures used in tattooing, Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Materials:
drawing on paper: ink and wash
Dimensions:
38.4 x 22.5 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1008--ffALB
Subject:
- Discovery & exploration
- Expeditions & surveys
- Indigenous peoples
- Manners & customs
- Oceania
- Voyages to the Pacific
- Travel sketches
- Wash drawings
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Geometric animal-like patterns used in Nukahivan tattooing; motif on inset is detail of Enata motif (figures 5 and 13).
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Supplied title. Signature (LR): G. Langsdorff ad natur[am] delineav[it]. Handwritten (UL, in ink): Tab IV. Inset piece (LC) with drawing and inscription [dieses wird noch auf der 4ten Platte zugesezt?]. Ref. note: German edition: Volume I, Plate 9; text, p. 105; English edition: Volume I, Plate 8; text, p. 122. Inscriptions in German.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf9p30131 8

[Figures used in tattooing, Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]