Costumes of the people of the Pacific, 18th century. Polynesian man and woman of Tahiti wearing tapa bark-fabric tiputa cloaks 1, Hawaiian man and woman in tapa bark-fabric skirts, the man a dancer with an 'uli'uli feather rattle 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792.
Costumes of the people of the Pacific, 18th century. Polynesian man and woman of Tahiti wearing tapa bark-fabric tiputa cloaks 1, Hawaiian man and woman in tapa bark-fabric skirts, the man a dancer with an 'uli'uli feather rattle 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792.