IMAGE
Sainson, Louis Auguste de, b 1801 :Tonga-Tabou. Costumes de guerre. V Adam lith; de Sainson pinx [1833]
- Date
- 1826 - 1833
- Reference
- B-052a-007-2
- Description
Shows a man of Tonga wearing a cloth or skin wrapped as a skirt around his waist, and holding a broad-bladed spear. The right side of his torso and face are painted dark brown, and he wears a white cloth band around his head. Another similarly-dressed man in the left background holds a bow and arrow.
Extended Title - Right side of plate from: Dumont d'Urville, J S C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe, 1826-1829. [1833
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Coloured lithograph, 210 x 190 mm on right side of sheet 355 x 530 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Sainson, Louis Auguste de b 1801 :Tonga-Tabou. Costumes des habitans; costume de guerre. V Adam lith; de Sainson pinx [1833] / Sainson, Louis Auguste de b 1801 :Tonga-Tabou. Costumes des habitans; costume de guerre. V Adam lith; de Sainson pinx [1833]
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Works of art, Lithographs, Ethnographic illustrations, Coloured lithograph, 210 x 190 mm on right side of sheet 355 x 530 mm, Orientation: Vertical image
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