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"Hakaiki Moipu, dispossessed chief of Atuona", p.5

Osbourne, Lloyd, 1888, Photograph
"Hakaiki Moipu, dispossessed chief of Atuona", p.5
"Hakaiki Moipu, dispossessed chief of Atuona", p.5
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Item no
19390
Title
p.5, Hakaiki Moipu, dispossessed chief of Atuona, in war costume
Description
Hakaiki Moipu, a dispossessed chief of the Marquesas Islands, stands with his back to the camera. He is wearing a war costume consisting of a loin cloth, headdress and fibre cape. Trees can be seen behind him.

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
Osbourne, Lloyd
Date
1888
Size
11.3 x 13 cm
Type
Location
Writers' Museum
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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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