1927 Print Ao Warrior Military Regalia Native Costume ORIGINAL HISTORIC TRV1 XHE1 Self-taught Art

Self-taught Art

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Then sail across the English Channel in the Cambria racing yacht and join a volunteer rifle brigade in the French army at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War

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1927 Print Ao Warrior Military Regalia Native Costume ORIGINAL HISTORIC TRV1 XHE1 Self-taught ArtThis 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