Antique Print-WARRIOR-TATTOO-CARTERET ISLANDS-MASSACRE-Wahlen-1844

Antique Print-WARRIOR-TATTOO-CARTERET ISLANDS-MASSACRE-Wahlen-1844

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Naturel de l’Ile Massacre. – Handcoloured plates showing a figure with a bow and arrow. The man’s body is tattooed all over, and he wears the historical costume of his people, the inhabitants of the Carteret Islands (formerly known as Massacre Islands).

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‘Naturel de l’Ile Massacre.’

Handcoloured lithograph, heightened with Arabic gum on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 16,7 x 26,1 cm. (6,6 x 10,3 inch). Image size: 10 x 18,5 cm. (3,9 x 7,3 inch).

From the Oceania volume of “Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples de Monde” by Auguste Wahlen. This was published in Paris: Poiree, Pilout, Duterte and Martinon, 1844.

Made by an anonymous engraver after ‘Auguste Wahlen’. Author: Auguste Wahlen. Various artists are responsible for the illustrations, most notably Evrard Duverger, L. Markaert and R. King.

Condition: Good, given age. Browned, and with some small stains. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: WARRIOR-TATTOO-CARTERET ISLANDS-MASSACRE

PCO-C9-07

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Dimensions 26 × 16 × 1 cm

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