Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810 :Femme de l'Isle Ste Christine. J G S Sauveur dir; L Labrousse scu. [Paris, 1796?]

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Title

Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810 :Femme de l'Isle Ste Christine. J G S Sauveur dir; L Labrousse scu. [Paris, 1796?]

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Collection

TAPUHI

Description

Engraving shows a woman of Santa Cristina (Tahuata), an island in the Marquesas, wearing a plumed headdress. She has a striped cloak tied around her shoulders, a short bodice with a geometric pattern, and a short skirt with a wide belt tied to hang centrally. She wears ornaments of straps and feathers around her calves. Her left hand leans on a long staff with four "teeth" near its base, and holds in her right hand a basket of fruit and foliage. In the distance is a hut overhung by palm trees...

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Format

Image

Date created

1796

Creator

Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810 / Labrousse, L, active 1796

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23049495

Locations

Tahuata

Related subjects

Marquesans / Clothing and dress / French Polynesia / Marquesas Islands / Tahuata

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