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English: "Nomahanna, Queen of the Sandwich Islands". Kotzebue published this portrait of Namahana as a frontispiece to his A New Voyage Around the World. He described her midnight-black hair as "neatly plaited atop a head as round as a ball" and often decorated with a lei po‘o (head lei) of Chinese artificial flowers. A robust woman, she wore large-sized, European-made men’s shoes.
Date 14 December 1824, published in 1830
Source

Otto von Kotzebue, Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (1830) A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, 2, H. Colburn & R. Bentley

Author
Samuel Freeman  (1773–1857)  wikidata:Q7411419
 
Description English artist and engraver
Date of birth/death 1773 Edit this at Wikidata 27 February 1857 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q7411419


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