Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Orlowski, Aleksandr (1777-1832), Polish, artist (attributed to)
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
[Weapons and household utensils of their habitants of Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Oceania]
Date:
[ca. 1810]
Materials:
drawing on paper: ink and wash
Dimensions:
41.9 x 26.5 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1011--ffALB
Subject:
- Arms & armaments
- Clothing & dress
- Discovery & exploration
- Equipment
- Expeditions & surveys
- Oceania
- Voyages to the Pacific
- Travel sketches
- Wash drawings
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Decorative arrangement of clubs, arrows, spear, paddles, scepters, jars, fans, skull, necklace, etc. Probably done in St. Petersburg by Orloffsky after on-the-spot drawings by Langsdorff.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Supplied title. Handwritten (UL, in ink): VII. Ref. note: Langsdorff; German edition: Vol. I, Plate 12; text, p. 148; not in English edition.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf6m3nb7n s

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