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Femme de l'Isle Ste Christine.

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Date

[1796?]

Artist

Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810)

Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image Link

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

Additional Makers

Engraver: L Labrousse (active 1796)

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.

The work is likely to be from Grasset de Saint-Sauveur's "Encyclopedie des voyages ..." published in Paris in 1796.

Other Titles - Sculpsit

Other Titles - Woman of Santa Cristina Island

Image Licence

All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library

Location

Tahuata, French Polynesia

Country

French Polynesia

Medium

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Fashion

Category

People & Society

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