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Maker(s):Arago, Jacques Etienne Victor
Culture:French, (1790-1855)
Title:Manière délicate et ingénieuse dont ou punit de mort un coupable aux iles Sandwich ( translation: An ingenious and delicate manner of execution at the Hawaiian islands)
Date Made:Published by Pierre Langlumé (Poitiers 1790 - Paris 1830)
Type:Print
Materials:Lithograph on moderately thick, moderatley textured, cream- colored paper
Measurements:sheet: 13 3/4 in x 10 in; 34.9 cm x 25.4 cm; image: 5 13/16 in x 7 5/8 in; 14.8 cm x 19.4 cm
Accession Number:  SC 2018.34.19
Credit Line:purchased
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
2018_34_19.jpg

Description:
scene of a man being held down on a board by three other men while a man behind them in a fur cape points points at him and a fifth man standing over the first man prepares to beat him with a club

Tags:
punishing; indigenous people

Subjects:
Indigenous peoples; Lithography

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