A man from the Hawaiian Islands wearing a mask; encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by T. Cook after J. Webber, 1780/1785.

  • Webber, John, 1751-1793.
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[1784]
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566740i
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A man from the Hawaiian Islands wearing a mask; encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by T. Cook after J. Webber, 1780/1785. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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He is wearing a gourd helmet with a fern crest above and cloth strips below

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[London] : [Printed for John Stockdale, Scatcherd and Whitaker, John Fielding, and John Hardy], [1784]

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1 print : engraving ; platemark 28.7 x 21 cm

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A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask ; J. Webber del. ; T. Cook sculpt. Bears number: 66

References note

Rüdiger Joppien and Bernard Smith, The art of Captain Cook's voyages, vol. 3: The voyage of the Resolution and Discovery 1776-1780, New Haven and London 1988, p. 541, no. 3.311A

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Wellcome Collection 566740i

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