Caption:
Native man of Radack Islands (Ratak chain), Marshall Islands, with tattooed chest, blue beard and rolled pandanus-leaf earrings. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824. Copied from an illustration by Louis Choris in Otto von Kotzebue's Picturesque voyage around the world, 1822.