Tattooing - French Polynesia - Marquesas Islands

Date: 1776 - 1777

From: Hodges, William, 1728-1779 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's second voyage. W Hodges delt; sculp. by various hands] - London, 1776-1777

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Hall, John, 1739-1797

Reference: C-051-014

Description: Half-length frontal portrait of a Marquesan chief. His face is tattooed and he wears an elaborate head-dress, large shell earrings, a gorget and draped garment After a drawing by William Hodges on James Cook's 2nd circummnavigation Trimmed inside plate marks Published in Cook, James. A voyage towards the South Pole (London, Strahan, 1777) Pl 36 Other Titles - Santa Christina, Marquesas Islands Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 310 x 240 mm

Date: 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Costume plates of Oceania] Torino [Turin] ; Fontana, 1844

By: Lacoste, pere et fils, active 1830-1840s; Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb, 1769-1857

Reference: A-119-030

Description: Standing portrait of a warrior from Nuku Hiva, with his body entirely tattooed. He wears a narrow loin cloth, a headdress incorporating teeth, and what appears to be a bone necklace. He carries a gourd and a long-handled broad-bladed club whose decoration includes a face. Artist is possibly Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau, who made similar pictures, during the voyage of Krusenstern on the Nadezhda and Neva, in 1803-1806. See reproduction of a similar image in "Great voyages of exploration; the golden age of discovery in the Pacific", by Jacques Brosse, translated by Stanley Hochman (Doubleday, 1983), page 120. Wahlen's book is a translation of his "Moeurs, usages et coutumes de tous les peuples du monde..." Bruxelles, 1843-44. Vol. 4. Other Titles - Nuku Hiva, Noukahiva Extended Title - From: Wahlen, A. Usi e costumi sociali, politici, et religiosi... Vol. 2 Oceania. Torino, 1844-1847. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, handcoloured, on sheet 270 x 175 mm.

Date: 1776

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Hall, John, 1739-1797

Reference: C-051-014-a

Description: Half-length frontal portrait of a Marquesan chief. His face is tattooed and he wears an elaborate head-dress, large shell earrings, a gorget and draped garments After a drawing made by William Hodges on Cook's 2nd circumnavigation Trimmed inside plate marks Published in Cook, James. A voyage towards the South Pole. (London, Strahan, 1777). Pl 36 Other Titles - Santa Christina, Marquesas Islands Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 310 x 240 mm

Date: 1776

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Hall, John, 1739-1797

Reference: C-051-014-b

Description: Half-length frontal portrait of a Marquesan chief. His face is tattooed and he wears an elaborate head-dress, large shell earrings, a gorget and draped garment After drawing on Cook's 2nd voyage Trimmed inside plate marks Published in Cook J. A voyage towards the South Pole Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 310 x 240 mm

Date: 1774 - 1835 - 1838 - 1836 - 1843

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Boys, active 1835; Pouncy, Benjamin Thomas, -1799

Reference: A-318-033

Description: Shows two canoes, the one in the foreground manned by two figures in tall feather [?] headdresses, beards, cloths around the lower body. The canoe has a high stern and a row of three carved boards standing upright in the prow. The further canoe has six tattooed figures aboard, engaged in rowing. That canoe appears to be double-prowed with an outrigger, and has a high seat in the back. There are distant mountainous headlands in the background. Probably copied from B T Pouncy's engraving after Hodges. The further boat has no sail however. Plate 137 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist and Boys as the engraver. Other Titles - Polynesie - Pirogues des iles Nouka-Hiva Other Titles - Polynesia - War canoes of Nuku Hiva Other Titles - Resolution Bay [Vaitahu Bay in St Christina / Tahuata] in the Marquesas Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 137 William Hodges accompanied Cook's second voyage, 1772-75. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: 1837 - 1893 - 1839 - 1894

From: Sellier, P :[Ten ink drawings of Pacific Islanders including Tahitians, Marquesans, Vanuatuans and Papua New Guineans, 1893 or 1894?]

Reference: A-340-045

Description: Shows a half-length profile portrait of a seated woman holding a fan in her right hand. Her hair is drawn back and tied with a strip of cloth. her forearms and hands are tattooed, and she wears a necklace and earrings. The figure is based on a work by Louis Le Breton, "La princesse Patini, Tahia, jeune fille de la baie Anna Maria, Iles Nouka-Hiva", Plate no. 59 of: Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie. Atlas pittoresque, vol. 1 / J. Dumont d'Urville, published 1846, from a visit in 1839 or 1840. Other Titles - Queen of Nukuhiva, Marquesas Islands Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Reduire de 1/3; Verso - centre - Ch 1, f 39. Femme des Iles Marquises [Woman of the Marquesas Islands] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on card, 233 x 158 mm.

Date: 1803 - 1893 - 1806 - 1894

From: Sellier, P :[Ten ink drawings of Pacific Islanders including Tahitians, Marquesans, Vanuatuans and Papua New Guineans, 1893 or 1894?]

Reference: A-340-044

Description: Shows a full length figure of a tattooed man with an ornate small flat headdress. He holds a bow in his right hand and a handful of arrows in his left hand. The figure is very similar to that entitled "Noukahiva (Oceania)" at A-119-030. The image is therefore derived from that in Kruzenstern, A Atlas... 1824 (f910.4 Kru). Pl. 10. Kruzensterns' voyage took place 1803-1806. A variant of the same image is also reproduced in A Wahlen, Moeurs, usages et costumes... Oceanie Bruxelles, 1845. Pl. 200. Other Titles - Tattooed native of the Marquesas islands. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Reduire de 1/5; Verso - centre - Ch 1, p [or f] 34 [or 94]. Indigene des Iles Marquises Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on card, 155 x 118 mm.

Date: 1804

From: Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von, 1774-1852 :Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bis 1807. Frankfurt, Friedrich Wilmans, 1812-1814

By: Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (Baron), 1774-1852; Bock, Johann Christoph, 1752-

Reference: PUBL-0184-09

Description: Depictions of the patterns of Marquesan tattoos. In the lower centre of the view a fully-tattooed hand is shown Held in the New Zealand and Pacific book collection at 910.4/p/LAN/1812 Other Titles - Representation of the various main shapes used in tattooing and several of the same shown natural size. Drawn from nature by G. von Langsdorff. J. C. Bock, engraver [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 195 x 161 mm

Date: 1804 - 1812

Reference: A-117-003

Description: Scene inside a dwelling, with a seated naked woman and two small children. A naked man covered with tattoos is holding the woman by the wrist, beginning to tattoo her, and a second man, also tattooed, entering the door of the hut, is holding a pig's head as a present for the tattooist. There are several ornaments or tools against the back wall of the house. The text accompanying the original German version of this illustration has a slightly variant title: Das Innere einer Hutte von Nukahiva. The description, translated, reads: "in which a master of tattooing sits and practises his art. A tabooed person is entering the hut, bringing a pig's head as a present for the artist. Plate 11, text p.111." This print is a later and variant version of the engraving in Langsdorff. The image is reversed and has lost some detail and has acquired a title as part of the image, instead of the title on the opposite page seen in the original Langsdorff version. It is also slightly smaller. The Library's copy of Langsdorff at 910.4/P/LAN/1812 comprises a volume of plates and a single volume of text. Baron von Langsdorff accompanied Krusenstern on his voyage around the world, visiting Nukuhiva in 1804. This illustration was published in Langsdorff's acount of the voyage, but not in Krusenstern's. Other Titles - The inside of a hut on Nukuhiva, Marquesas Islands 1804 Extended Title - From: Langsdorff, G. H von. Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bis 1807. Frankfurt, Friedrich Wilmans, 1812. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on laid paper 106 x 159 mm on sheet 155 x 191 mm

Date: 1804

From: Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von, 1774-1852 :Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bis 1807. Frankfurt, Friedrich Wilmans, 1812-1814

Reference: PUBL-0184-07

Description: A Marquesan man, shown full length, standing, a spear in his right hand, a fan in his left. He is wearing a loincloth and is tattooed from head to foot He has a short beard, wears ear ornaments and wears his hair in two cones at the top of his head, with a shaved or bald patch in the centre. Held in the New Zealand and Pacific book collection at 910.4/p/LAN/1812 Other Titles - An inhabintant of the Island of Nukahiva [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 213 x 172 mm

Date: 1804

From: Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von, 1774-1852 :Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bis 1807. Frankfurt, Friedrich Wilmans, 1812-1814

Reference: PUBL-0184-08

Description: A young Marquesan man from Nukahiva, seen from behind. He is standing near a shore, a human skull in his left hand, a spear in his right. Most of his torso and arms are covered in tattoos, but his legs are only partially tattooed Held in the New Zealand and Pacific book collection at 910.4/p/LAN/1812 Other Titles - Portrait of a young Nukahivan, not yet fully tattooed, seen from behind [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 199 x 158 mm

Date: 1837 - 1840

From: Le Guillou, Elie Jean Francois, b. 1806 :Voyage autour du monde de l'Astrolabe et de la Zelee sous les ordres du contre-amiral Dumont d'Urville ... par Elie Le Gillou ... ouvrage enriche de nombreux dessins et de notes scientifiques ... par J. Arago. Paris, Berquet et Petion, 1844.

By: Le Guillou, Elie Jean Francois, 1806-

Reference: PUBL-0073-128

Description: Scene aboard Dumont d'Urville's vessel the Zelee in the Marquesas Islands, showing a circle of seated women, their arms raised in a dance. The women are wearing loincloths or skirts and are tattooed. They are watched by French sailors and others travelling with Dumont d'Urville. Other Titles - Dance of the women of Nouka Hiva, Marquesas Islands, on board the Zelee. Extended Title - From: Le Guillou, E. J. F. Voyage autour du monde de l'Astrolabe et de la Zelee ... Paris, Berquet et Petion, 1844. opp. p. 128. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 109 x 164 mm

Date: 1774 - 1810 - 1830

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Bonatti, D K, active 1800-1820s; Hill, Julian, active 1996-2009

Reference: A-054-015

Description: Shows two images, rearranged from originals by Williams Hodges. In the upper half there is the woman of Santa Christina with a blue scarf around her head and shoulders. Beside her is the Chief, with a feathered headdress and pink robes. In the lower half, the items on Hodges "Ornaments and weapons at the Marquesas" are shown in an arrangement different from that produced after Hodges by Charles Chapman, but all the same items are present. The ornaments and weapons, identified in Joppien & Smith's "Art of Captain Cook's voyages" (1985), volume 2, page 207, are: a gorget ornamented with red pease; an ornament for the head; a club; a head-dress; a fan. From an unknown Italian publication. One of the etchers was Angelo Biasioli, 1790-1830. Cook was in the Marquesas on his second voyage in 1774. Santa Christina is also known as Tahuata. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - D K Bonatti dis e inc. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Handpainted aquatint, plate 260 x 217 mm on loose page, 340 x 240 mm. Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from a dealer in Washington DC.

Date: 1849 - 1843 - 1850

By: Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb, 1769-1857; Berghaus, Heinrich Karl Wilhelm, 1797-1884

Reference: A-449-009

Description: Standing portrait of a warrior from Nuku Hiva, with his body entirely tattooed. He wears a narrow loin cloth, a headdress incorporating teeth, and what appears to be a bone necklace. He carries a gourd and a long-handled broad-bladed club whose decoration includes a face. The same or similar face motif is tattooed on the front of his thighs. Artist is possibly Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau, who made similar pictures, during the voyage of Krusenstern on the Nadezhda and Neva, in 1803-1806. The wood engraving was possibly originally published in Augustus Wahlen, Moeurs, usages et costumes de tous les peuples du monde, Oceanie (Bruxelles: A La Librairie Historique-Artistique, 1843), facing p.200 One modification has been made to the Swedish impression from the one published in Wahlen, namely the removal of most of the inscription PANNEMAKER. LISBET., originally beneath the figure's right foot, with only the last letter and the stop (T.) remaining Other Titles - Native of Nuku Hiva (translation from the Swedish) Extended Title - From: Dr Heinrich Berghaus, Jordens Folkslag, efter deras egendomlighet (Stockholm: Bonniers Forlag, 1849-1850) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, hand-coloured with gum arabic, on sheet 242 x 159 mm