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Antique Print-NUKU HIVA-TATTOO MAN-COSTUME-MARQUESAS-POLYNESIA-Wahlen-1844

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€55.00

Noukahiwa. – Handcoloured plate showing a heavily tattooed figure from Nuku Hiva (or Nukahiva). As there once was a royal family of the same name on the island, this figure may be one of them. Nuku Hiva is the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia.

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Description

‘Noukahiwa.’

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: 11,5 x 19 cm. (4,5 x 7,5 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. Faintly browned, and with some small stains. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: NUKU HIVA-TATTOO MAN-COSTUME-MARQUESAS-POLYNESIA

PCO-C9-14

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Dimensions 26 × 16 × 1 cm

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