1927 Print Ao Warrior Military Regalia Native Costume ORIGINAL HISTORIC TRV1 OWE1 and Berlin

and Berlin

This is an original 1927 photogravure of milking sheep in the Halligen

This piece was illustrated by Hocknell

There is some light surface rub on the left margin --please see image

1927 Print Ao Warrior Military Regalia Native Costume ORIGINAL HISTORIC TRV1 OWE1 and BerlinThis is an original 1927 halftone print of an image of the military regalia of the Ao Warrior, consisting of a brilliant costume flashing with color and barbaric splendor. His weapons are the long spear and the dao or chopper shaped axe. On his head is a chaplet of cane covered with bear fur from which rise the bright feathers of the sacred hornbill. Strings of bear tusks hang from his neck, an elaborately embroidered baldric fringed with red hair