'Bows and arrows from Terra del Fuego', drawing by John Frederick Miller
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Location: Terra del Fuego [Tierra del Fuego] Title inscribed in pencil in Banks’s hand below drawing. Signed in pencil: ‘J. F. Miller del:’ (lower right).
'Otaheite View at the Back of Point Venus towards Pithas Long House', drawing by Sydney Parkinson
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Location: Otaheite [Tahiti] Title inscribed in pencil in Banks’s hand on mount below the sheet. Pencil annotation in a later hand, within framing lines, lower right: ‘drawn by S. Parkinson’. The view closely resembles ‘A View round the Point at the back of the Encampment, Tahiti’, sketch by H...
'Tree on One Tree Hill. Otaheite', drawing by John James Barralet
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Location: Otaheite [Matavai Bay, Tahiti] Signed: ‘J. Barralet’ (on drawing below tree). Title inscribed in pencil on sheet below the drawing. Pencil inscription: ‘See pl. 2 in Hawksworth’ (below drawing lower right). Second version by Barralet of the original drawing by Sydney Parkinson (Bri...
'Fort Venus Otaheite', drawing by Charles Praval, after Herman Spöring
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Location: Otaheite [Tahiti] Title inscribed in pencil, in Banks’s hand, on sheet below the drawing: ‘Fort Venus Otaheite’. Pencil inscription in a later hand: ‘Drawn by Lieut. J. Cook See Add. 7085.8’ (lower right). Attribution of drawing to Praval discussed in Joppien and Smith (1985-1987), ...
'Gorget from Otaheite', drawing by John Frederick Miller
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Drawing of a breast gorget, or taumi from Tahiti. Signed and dated: ‘J. F. Miller del 1771’ (lower right). Title inscribed in Banks’s hand on sheet below drawing.
A breast-plate or gorget from Tahiti, drawing by John Frederick Miller
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Location: Tahiti Drawing of a breast gorget, or taumi from Tahiti. Signed: ‘J. F. Miller del.’ (lower right). Title inscribed in Banks’s hand on sheet below drawing.
'Otaheite: Dancing girl, and Chief mourner', drawing by Tupaia
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Location: Otaheite [Tahiti] Pencil inscriptions: ‘Otaheite’ (top centre); ‘Dancing Girl’ and ‘Chief Mourner’ (top, above the drawn figures). Drawing by an artist previously identified as ‘The Artist of the Chief Mourner’, now recognised as Tupaia (Keith Vincent Smith, ‘Tupaia’s sketchbook’, Br...
Indigenous Australians in bark canoes, drawing by Tupaia
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Location: Southeastern Australia Pencil inscription in unknown hand at head of sheet: ‘Otaheite'. Catalogued in Joppien and Smith as 'Australian aborigines in bark canoes, drawing by Tupaia'.