![A Morai, or Burial Place, in the Island of Yoolee-Etea [Raiatea]](../../biogs/gallery/objects/park_plate010_t.jpg) |
| Title: | A Morai, or Burial Place, in the Island of Yoolee-Etea [Raiatea] |
| Type: | Engraving |
| Description: | engraving by James Newton (1748-1907), from drawings by Sydney Parkinson now lost. The Newton engraving was included as plate x in Parkinson's posthumously published Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas', London: 1773. In the journal, Parkinson writes, 'In the afternoon we went on shore again, and saw but few of the natives in the country, which, though very pleasant, looks like an uninhabited or deserted place. We saw some morais, [see pl. X.] or burial places, which are similar in all these islands, and went into one of them, in which there was a whatee, or altar, with a roasted hog, and fish upon it, designed as an offering to the Ethooa, or god. Near to the whatee, or altar, there was a large house, which contained the coong-drums used at their solemnities: and, adjoining to this house, were several large cages of wood, having awnings of palm-leaves upon them. These cages are called Oro, and rested upon beams laid upon others that stood upright, and seemed in-tended for the reception of the birds sacred to Ethooa, of which there are two that fly about their morais, the grey heron, and a blue and brown king-fisher. These morais are paved, or rather covered with a sort of coral, and planted with various sorts of flowering shrubs, such as nonoah, etoa, and hibiscus. At the front of the morai, which faces the sea, they have built a fort of amphitheatre, of large rough stones; and, among these stones, there are a great many long boards set up, carved in various figures, according to their fancy. Every family of note has one of these morais ornamented as much as they can afford (p.70).' |
| Location: | South Seas |
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![A morai, or burial place (in the Island of Yoolee-Etea [Raiatea])](http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an23048588-t) |
| Title: | A morai, or burial place (in the Island of Yoolee-Etea [Raiatea]) |
| Type: | Engraving |
| Description: | Copy of the engraving by James Newton (1748-1907), from drawings by Sydney Parkinson now lost. The Newton engraving was included as plate x in Parkinson's posthumously published Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas', London: 1773. |
| Location: | National Library of Australia |
| Physical description: | 9.6 x 15.8 cm. |
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![Waheiadooa [Vehiatua], chief of Oheitepeha [Taiarapu], lying in state](http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an7723659-t) |
| Title: | Waheiadooa [Vehiatua], chief of Oheitepeha [Taiarapu], lying in state |
| Type: | Soft Ground Etching |
| Description: | By John Webber (1750-1793). Published 1 July 1789. This was one of a series of etchings Webber completed between 1788 and 1792. The etchings were the basis of a later series of engravings by the artist that were eventually published as acquatint plates in London in 1808. The body depicted was that of the young chief of the Taiarapu peninsula, known by the title of Vehiatua. He had died after a long illness in October 1775. Cook and his party viewed his corpse after it had lain for about twenty months in a ghost house (fare Tupapa'u) adjacent to Vaiotaha, the most important marae in the Taiarapu peninsula. The length of time the body lay before burial indicates the paramount chiefly status of those who held the title Vehiatua. |
| Location: | National Library of Australia |
| Physical description: | plate mark 32.4 x 44.5 cm. |
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![Otaheite [Tahiti]](http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an4240816-t) |
| Title: | Otaheite [Tahiti] |
| Type: | Watercolour |
| Description: | Painting by William Hodges (1744-1797), dated as ca. 1773. |
| Location: | National Library of Australia |
| Physical description: | 37.5 x 54.5 cm. |
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![The body of Tee [Tii], a chief, as preserved after death, in Otaheite [Tahiti]](http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an7722636-t) |
| Title: | The body of Tee [Tii], a chief, as preserved after death, in Otaheite [Tahiti] |
| Type: | Engraving |
| Description: | Engraving by William Byrne (1743-1795) from a drawing by John Webber (1750-1793) for inclusion as plate xxvi of James Cook's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, London: 1784. The body depicited is that of Tii, a man of cheifly rank in the district of Ha'apape who had died some months before Cook's last landing at Tahiti in 1777. |
| Location: | National Library of Australia |
| Physical description: | plate mark 26 x 40.5 cm. |
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| Title: | A view in the Island of Huaheine |
| Type: | Engraving |
| Description: | Engraving by William Woollett from drawings by Sydney Parkinson for inclusion as plate vi in volume two of John Hawkesworth's Account of the Voyages'to the Southern Hemisphere', London: 1773. |
| Location: | South Seas |
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| Title: | A view in the island of Huaheine |
| Type: | Engraving |
| Description: | Engraving by William Woollett from drawings by Sydney Parkinson for inclusion as plate vi in volume two of John Hawkesworth's Account of the Voyages'to the Southern Hemisphere', London: 1773. |
| Location: | National Library of Australia |
| Physical description: | plate mark 24 x 38 cm. |
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![A toupapow [tupapa'u] with a corpse on it, attended by the Chief Mourner in his habit of ceremony](http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an7682809-t) |
| Title: | A toupapow [tupapa'u] with a corpse on it, attended by the Chief Mourner in his habit of ceremony |
| Type: | Engraving |
| Description: | Engraved by William Woollett (1735-1785) from a drawing by William Hodges (1744-1797). Prepared for inclusion as plate xlliv of James Cook's Voyage towards the South Pole, London, 1777. |
| Location: | National Library of Australia |
| Physical description: | plate mark 24 x 39 cm. |
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| Title: | A view in the Island of Otaheite; with the house or shed called Tupapow [tupapa'u' |
| Type: | Engraving |
| Description: | Engraved from a drawing by John James Barrelet, created from a sketch by Sydney Parkinson. Woolett's engraving was included as plate v in volume two of John Hawkesworth's Account of the Voyages'in the Southern Hemisphere, London: 1773. |
| Location: | South Seas |
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![View of the house or shed, called tupapow [tupapa'u] in Otaheite[ Tahiti], under which the dead are deposited ...](http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an5633692-t) |
| Title: | View of the house or shed, called tupapow [tupapa'u] in Otaheite[ Tahiti], under which the dead are deposited ... |
| Type: | Sepia Wash Drawing |
| Description: | By G.T. Boult. Copy of the engraving by William Woollett from a drawing by John James Barrelet, created from a sketch by Sydney Parkinson. Woolett's engraving was included as plate v in volume two of John Hawkesworth's Account of the Voyages'in the Southern Hemisphere, London: 1773. |
| Location: | National Library of Australia |
| Physical description: | 27.8 x 36.5 cm. |
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![A toopapaoo [tupapa'u] of a chief, with a priest making his offering to the morai in Huoheine](http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an7723674-t) |
| Title: | A toopapaoo [tupapa'u] of a chief, with a priest making his offering to the morai in Huoheine |
| Type: | Soft Ground Etching |
| Description: | By John Webber (1752-1793), published 1 October 1789. |
| Location: | National Library of Australia |
| Physical description: | plate mark 32.5 x 44.5 cm. |
| Digital Versions: | jpeg file |
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