Philippoteaux, Henri Felix Emmanuel, 1815-1884

Date: 1859

By: Philippoteaux, Henri Felix Emmanuel, 1815-1884; Pierre, active 1850s; Dufour Mulat and Boulanger

Reference: A-251-021

Description: Shows five figures from various Pacific Islands arranged in a group as if in the same place, an island setting. The man of Tahiti wears a white shirt and blue skirt and carries a pole over his right shoulder with coconuts loaded on to each end of it. The young woman of the Viti Islands is seated on the ground at lower left, barebreasted with a grass skirt, necklaces and pink hibiscus flowers in her hair. The woman of Upolu wears a blue skirt, and her upper body is wrapped in a white blanket revealing both breasts. The woman of Rotuma is barebreasted and wears a white skirt. Her hair is styled in a topknot with a green leaf protruding from behind her right ear; she carries a branch of leaves in her right hand. The bearded man of the Iros Islands wears a loin cloth and necklace and holds a paddle. His hair is in a topknot and he is heavily tattooed on limbs and torso. Date given at http://www.antique-prints.de/shop/catalog.php?cat=KAT09&lang=ENG&, retrieved 5 May 2010. Other Titles - Oceania; Man of Tahiti; Young girl of the Viti Islands, Fiji; Woman of Upolu, Navigator Group; Woman of the island of Rotuma, Fiji; Native of the Iros Islands, Caroline Group Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Handcoloured engraving, image 170 x 120 mm, on sheet 278 x 174 mm.