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Gauthier
Marquesan chief
1919 (ca)
Postcard
140 x 94 mm
Oceania-Ethnographica
Courtesy of www.oceania-ethnographica.com (#3036)
LL/14410
Published by Braun et Cie, Paris. The subject is heavily tattooed and wears a head ornament of clam and turtle shell, paekaha. He is holding a club, U'u.
cf Blackburn, Tattoos from paradise: traditional Polynesian patterns. Schiffer, 1999, p 141.
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