Tattoo patterns of Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Kake 1,2, Enata 3,4,5, Kake-opogo 6,7, Matta-Comor 8, Niho-Piata 9,10, Ehowa 11,12, Tumaima 13. Copied from an illustration by Georg Langsdorff in Reise um die Welt, 1812. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.
Tattoo patterns of Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. Kake 1,2, Enata 3,4,5, Kake-opogo 6,7, Matta-Comor 8, Niho-Piata 9,10, Ehowa 11,12, Tumaima 13. Copied from an illustration by Georg Langsdorff in Reise um die Welt, 1812. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.