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"Moipu (Chief of Atuona, Marquesas) dancing", p.31

Mrs Hoare, 1889, Photograph
"Moipu (Chief of Atuona, Marquesas) dancing", p.31
"Moipu (Chief of Atuona, Marquesas) dancing", p.31
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Item no
19340
Title
p.31, Moipu (Chief of Atuona, Marquesas Island) dancing (from sketch)
Description
A photograph of a sketch of Moipu, a dispossed chief of Atuona on the Marquesas Islands. He is wearing a big hair cape, a headdress, a knotted tail and loin cloth. His body is covered in tattoos.

The image is from the photograph album entitled 'The Cruise of the Casco' of Robert Louis Stevenson's travels around Hawaii and French Polynesia in 1888.
Artist / maker
Mrs Hoare
Date
1889
Size
14.1 x 10.1 cm
Type
Location
Writers' Museum
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Price
Digital FileElectronic file 72 dpi JPEG
£5.80(inc. VAT 20%)
Digital FileElectronic File 300 dpi TIFF
£29.40(inc. VAT 20%)
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