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Cook Islands
Date: 1979Reference: SA/ICM/G/6/12Part of: International Confederation of Midwives- Pictures
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A family from the Cook Islands; representing an advertisement to stay faithful to loved ones by protecting them against AIDS, issued by the Ministry of Health, Cook Islands. Colour lithograph by Judith Künzle.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 669720i- Pictures
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A woman helps a sick man to walk; representing a warning about AIDS by the National AIDS Committee, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Colour lithograph, 1993.
Date: November 1993Reference: 669718i- Pictures
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A couple embrace within a decorative backdrop and a warning about the need to protect against AIDS; advertisement by the National AIDS Committee, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Colour lithograph, 1993.
Date: November 1993Reference: 669719i- Books
European medicine in the Cook Islands / Raeburn Lange.
Lange, Raeburn.- Books
Traditional and herbal medicine in the Cook Islands / W. Arthur Whistler.
Whistler, W. Arthur.Date: 1985- Pictures
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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.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date: [1784]Reference: 566740i- Pictures
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The inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands offering to Captain Cook the sacrifice of a pig. Etching by S. Middiman and J. Hall, 1784, after J. Webber.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date: [1784]Reference: 566715i- Pictures
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A man from the Hawaiian Islands dancing; encountered by Captain Cook during his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by C. Grignion after J. Webber, 1780/1785.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date: [1784]Reference: 566718i- Pictures
A morai (place of burial) in Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, visited by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by D. Lerpinière after J. Webber, 1780/1785.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date: [1784]Reference: 566635i- Pictures
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A canoe with men from the Hawaiian Islands wearing masks, encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by C. Grignion, 1784, after J. Webber.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date: [1784]Reference: 566739i- Pictures
The inside of a long house in a morai (place of burial) in Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, visited by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by E. Scott, 1784, after J. Webber.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date: [1784]Reference: 566643i- Pictures
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A warning that AIDS means death, with a skull incorporating the letter 'D' of 'Death', a couple below, and a warning to be responsible; advertisement by the Public Health Department, Rarotonga. Colour lithograph, 1992.
Date: 1992Reference: 669717i- Books
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A narrative of the death of Captain James Cook. To which are added some particulars, concerning his Life and Character. And observations respecting the Introduction of the Venereal Disease into the Sandwich Islands. By David Samwell, surgeon of the discovery.
Samwell, David, 1751-1798.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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A narrative of the death of Captain James Cook. To which are added some particulars, concerning his life and character, and observations respecting the introduction of the venereal disease into the Sandwich Islands / By David Samwell, surgeon of the Discovery.
Samwell, David, -1799.Date: 1786- Pictures
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Information in English and Maori (on verso) on AIDS and how it is transmitted and prevented. Lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 669716i- Books
Roles of medical schools in national health developments and Commonwealth policies and programmes for disabled people : report of a survey of Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Western Samoa and New Caledonia with visits to Australia and New Zealand / by Sir Kenneth Stuart.
Stuart, Kenneth, Sir.Date: [1986]- Pictures
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Objects from the Hawaiian Islands. Engraving by J. Record, 1784, after J. Webber.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date: [1784]Reference: 566743i- Pictures
A young woman from the Hawaiian Islands. Engraving by J.K. Sherwin after J. Webber, 17--.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date: [1784]Reference: 566736i- Pictures
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Resolution Bay in the Marquesas Islands: canoes and a sailing boat in the harbour. Engraving by B.T. Pouncy, 1777, after W. Hodges, 1773.
Hodges, William, 1744-1797.Date: Feb.ry 1st 1777Reference: 566144i- Books
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Recreation for youth: a useful and entertaining epitome of geography and biography. The first part comprising a general view of the several empires, Kingdoms, Republics, States, remarkable Islands, Mountains, Seas, Rivers, and Lakes; with their Situation, Extent, Capitals, Population, Produce, Arts, Religion, and Commerce: Including the Discoveries of Capt. Cook, and others. The second part including the lives of the most eminent men who have flourished in Great-Britain, and its dependencies. By Joh Paterson Service.
Service, John Paterson.Date: [1787]- Books
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The American atlas: Or, A geographical description of the whole continent of America: wherein are delineated at large, its several regions, countries, states, and Islands; and chiefly the British colonies, composed from numerous surveys, several of which were made by order of government. By Major Holland, Lewis Evans, William Scull, Henry Mouzon, Lieut. Ross, J. Cook, Michael Lane, Joseph Gilbert, Gardner, Hillock, &c. &c. Engraved on forty-nine copper-plates, by the late Mr. Thomas Jefferys, geographer to the King, and others.
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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A new and authentic system of universal geography, antient and modern: All the late important discoveries made by the English, and other celebrated navigator of various nations, in the different hemispheres, from the celebrated Columbus, the first discoverer of America, to the death of our no less celebrated contryman Captain Cook, &c. and containing a genuine history and description whole world, as consisting of empires, kingdoms, states, republics, provinces, continents, Islands, oceans, &c. with the various countries, cities, towns, promotories, capes, bays, peninsulas, isthmusses, gulphs, rivers, harbours, lakes, mountains, volcanos, deserts, &c. ... To which is added a complete guide to geography, astronomy the use of the globes, maps, &c. with an account of the rise, progress, and present state, of navigation, throughout the known world. Likewise containing every important, interesting, and valuable discovery throughout the whole of Captain Cook's voyages round the world. Together with those of the modern circumnavigators, particularly byron, carteret, wallis, clerke, gore, King, forrest, and Wilson. Also containing a particular account of the Pelew Islands. And the latest accounts of the English colony of botany bay: with a particular description of Port Jackson, Norfolk Island, &c. where the convicts are now settled. The whole forming a complete collection of voyages and travels. By the Rev. Thomas Bankes, vicar of dixton, in monmouthshire and author of the christian's family Bible. Edward Warren Blake, Esq. Alexander Cook, Esq. and Thomas Lloyd. Embellished with near two hundred beautiful engravings, consisting, of views, antiquities, customs, ceremonies, &c. together with whole sheet maps, plans, charts, &c. executed in a much superior stile than any work of the like kind that has ever appeared in this kingdom.
Bankes, Thomas, 1744-Date: [1788]- Books
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A description of the windward passage, and Gulf of Florida, with the course of the British trading-ships to, and from the island of Jamaica. Also An account of the Trade-Winds, and of the variable Winds and Currents on the Coasts thereabouts, at different Seasons of the Year. Illustrated with a chart of the Coast of Florida, and of the Islands of Bahama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the adjacent smaller Islands, Shoals, Rocks, and other remarkable Things in the Course of the Navigation in the West-Indies. Whereby is demonstrated, The Precariousness of those Voyages to the West-India Merchants, and the Impossibility of their Homeward-Bound Ships keeping clear of the Spanish Guarda Costa's The Whole very necessary for the Information of such as never were in those Parts of the World. To which are added, some proposals for the better securing of the British trade and navigation to and from the West-Indies.
Cowley, J. (John).Date: 1739- Pictures
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The death of Captain James Cook: a man is fighting off his attackers with the butt of a rifle, men in a boat behind him are firing rifles at those on shore. Engraving, 1794, by I. Hall and I. Thornthwaite and S. Smith after G. Carter.
Carter, George, 1737-1794.Date: 12 May 1794Reference: 37688i