Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
[An inhabitant of the island of Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Materials:
drawing on paper: ink and wash
Dimensions:
41.7 x 27.5 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1006--ffALB
Subject:
- Clothing & dress
- Discovery & exploration
- Expeditions & surveys
- Indigenous peoples
- Oceania
- Voyages to the Pacific
- Portraits
- Travel sketches
- Wash drawings
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Standing figure of native man with fully tattooed body holding long club in left hand and fan in right; sketchy landscape setting. Loin cloth (tschiabu) attached to drawing.
Heading:
Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in pencil): [...?] Nukahiwa; (LR, in ink): G.H. Langsdorff ad naturam, del.; (UL, in ink): Tab II. Ref. note: Langsdorff--German edition: Volume I, Plate 7; text: p. 100; English edition: Volume I, Plate 6; text: p. 117. Inscriptions in German.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf8h4nb8b k

[An inhabitant of the island of Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]