Marquesan Chief Tattoed, circa 1882

cabinet photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
Hoare, C.B.
French Polynesia, Marquises, Îles; Société, Îles de la, Tahiti, Papeete
circa 1882
paper
overall: 6-1/2 x 4-1/4 in.

Cabinet photograph, albumen print; Marquesan Chief Tattooed, circa 1882 (see Manuscript Coll. 311); collected by Captain Richard C. Mears (1829-1899) during his travels as a shipmaster to the South Pacific; photograph of an original drawing, said to depict an portrait of a tattooed Marquesan chief (though, some facial markings look as though he could be an Australian Aborigine); printed on front "Mapiau - Cahuku."; handwritten on back "Marquisian/ Chief Tattooed"; printed on back "C. B. Hoare,/ Photographer,/ Papeete,/ Tahiti."

2005.34.59