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Date

19th Century

Description

Costume of a chief mourner from Tahiti; a single standing figure wearing a striped underskirt beneath a black open fronted robe; the upper half of the body concealed beneath a screen of strings of shells, the head covered with two large pairs of sheels surmounted with an aureole of feathers. Watercolour and pen and ink.

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Location

Tahiti, French Polynesia

Country

French Polynesia

Medium

Watercolour