A Maori woman. The plate is taken from a costume book of 1796, 'Moeurs, Loix et Costumes des Sauvages de la Nouvelle Zélande et de la Baye Hudson' by M. J. Grasset Sait-Saveur. Probably the artist was a little confused between the Indian and the Maori when he drew this picture
A Maori woman. The plate is taken from a costume book of 1796, 'Moeurs, Loix et Costumes des Sauvages de la Nouvelle Zélande et de la Baye Hudson' by M. J. Grasset Sait-Saveur. Probably the artist was a little confused between the Indian and the Maori when he drew this picture.