Wednesday 30 May 2012

Faces from the Pacific : travelling with Captain Cook

Mask from the Sandwich islands
Captain Cook, just before being killed in Hawaii.

A tribe from Papeete

kanak dancer
Pacific chief
Faces from Australia...
     

       


A night dance by men, in Hapaee from A voyage to the Pacific Ocean : undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere ... : performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery : in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. Volume IV. Atlas.. - Plate 16


For more pictures from Cook's voyages to Australia, click here!

When Cook was in Alaska, he saw a lot of totems. They often tell the story of a family. They are very impressive.

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