Tattooed and bare-breasted young woman dancing a hula while seated on the ground. Dancing girl of Maui, Hawaii. After an illustration by Jacques Arago, artist on the ship Uranie under Louis de Freycinet. Danseuse de lile Sandwich, mistakenly labeled Danseuse Javanaise. Handcoloured woodcut by Degreet after Arago from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium.

Tattooed and bare-breasted young woman dancing a hula while seated on the ground. Dancing girl of Maui, Hawaii. After an illustration by Jacques Arago, artist on the ship Uranie under Louis de Freycinet. Danseuse de lile Sandwich, mistakenly labeled Danseuse Javanaise. Handcoloured woodcut by Degreet after Arago from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium.

JACQUES ARAGO

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