Marquesas Collection

Jean Baptiste Capri, a French deserter who lived on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, with tattoos. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands

Man and woman of Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, Polynesia
Man and woman of Nuku Hiva (St. Christian), Marquesas Islands, Polynesia, 1818. Chief and woman in elaborate feather headdress, cloak and robes with basket and stick

Inhabitants of California, America, 1818. They wear feather headdresses, and the woman wears a grass skirt and carries a basket on a stick

Native man of La Magdalena (Fatu Hiva, Marquesas Islands) with sling, loincloth, headband and tattoos. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature

Native man of Nuku Hiva with spear and skull
Native of Nuku Hiva with spear and skull. Young man of the Marquesas Islands not completely tattooed. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature

Native man of La Magdalena (Fatu Hiva, Marquesas Islands) with club, loincloth, necklace and tattoos. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature

Native man of distinction from Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, with club, fan, loincloth and full body tattoos. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature

Tattooed warrior of Nuka Hiva, Marquesas Islands (Nukahiwa). In headdress and loincloth, full body tattoos, holding a large mace. Copied from Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau

Marquesas Islanders in war pirogues or outrigger canoes
Marquesas Islanders wearing headdresses in war pirogues or outrigger canoes in Resolution Bay or Vaitahu. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Marquesas Islanders: woman in turban, and chief of Tahuata Island (Santa Christina) in headdress. Feather headdress 1, fringed necklace 2, 4, fan 3, and war mace 5

Tattooed Marquesan
A man of the Marquesas Islands, tattooed from top to toe Date: 1850

Examples of Tattooing
Various examples of face tattooing from New Zealand, Fiji, East Africa & Marquesas Date: Nineteenth century

Idol from the Marquesas Islands
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Man and Woman of the Island of Tahuata (St Christian Island), the smallest of the Marquesas Islands, a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, in the southern Pacific Ocean

Pacific Marquesas
Entrance to the valley of Akaoui, on Nuku Hiva

Racial / Marquesas Natives
Marquesas Islands: two native men with an idol

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