IMAGE
Casa, G., fl 1830s-1840s :Oceania - Polinesia. Tav XXXII. G Casa dis. A Bernati dir. Lago inc. [Padua, 1843]
- Date
- 1843
- By
- Casa, G, active 1830s-1840s; Webber, John, 1751-1793; Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Bernati, A, active 1820; Lago, active 1830s-1840s
- Reference
- B-193-012
- Description
Shows a large group of Tahitians at a ceremony, appearing to receive a royal couple. A woman holds out her hands towards the couple and she wears a large hoop-skirt. Other women dancers perform behind her and many others stand as spectators, watching, talking together and smoking; one woman at the front left wears a large cross on a chain. To the further away, another group sits watching a physical fight between two men. There are various huts in the scene, and numerous trees including banana palms. Figures are shown after John Webber (1784)
Other Titles - Oceania - Polynesia. Plate 32
Extended Title - From Menin, Ludovico. Il costume di tutti le nazioni et di tutti i tempi. (Padua, 1843). Volume 3.
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Engraving 290 x 435 (plate mark)
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 b&w art print(s), Works of art, Engravings, Ethnographic illustrations, Engraving 290 x 435 (plate mark), Orientation: Horizontal image
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