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11. Add MS 15508, f 10

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Title:
Indigenous Australians in bark canoes, drawing by Tupaia
Scope & Content:
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'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1770
Extent:
1 drawing

12. Add MS 15508, f 11

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Title:
Musicians of Tahiti, drawing by Tupaia
Scope & Content:
Location: Tahiti Numbered ‘11’ (top right). Drawing by an artist previously identified as ‘The Artist of the Chief Mourner’, now recognised as Tupaia (Keith Vincent Smith, ‘Tupaia’s sketchbook’, British Library eJournal, 2005: http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2005articles/pdf/article10.pdf).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1770
Extent:
1 drawing

13. Add MS 15508, f 12

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Title:
Maori trading a crayfish with Joseph Banks, drawing by Tupaia
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zealand Drawing by an artist previously identified as ‘The Artist of the Chief Mourner’, now recognised as Tupaia (Keith Vincent Smith, ‘Tupaia’s sketchbook’, British Library eJournal, 2005: http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2005articles/pdf/article10.pdf). Numbered ‘12’ (top right). Catalo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1769
Extent:
1 drawing

14. Add MS 15508, f 13

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Title:
Two dancing girls holding fans or rattles, drawing by Tupaia
Scope & Content:
Location: Society Islands Numbered ‘13’ (top right). Drawing by an artist previously identified as ‘The Artist of the Chief Mourner’, now recognised as Tupaia (Keith Vincent Smith, ‘Tupaia’s sketchbook’, British Library eJournal, 2005: http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2005articles/pdf/article10.pdf). J...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1769
Extent:
1 drawing

15. Add MS 15508, f 14

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Title:
Scene in Tahiti, drawing by Tupaia
Scope & Content:
Location: Otaheite [Tahiti] Numbered ‘14’ (top right). Drawing by an artist previously identified as ‘The Artist of the Chief Mourner’, and attributed by Joppien and Smith to Joseph Banks, on account of the detailed depiction of plants (pandanus, breadfruit, banana, coconut trees and taro). No...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1769-Jul 1769
Extent:
1 drawing

16. Add MS 15508, f 15

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Title:
Portrait of an Indigenous Australian, drawing by Charles Praval
Scope & Content:
Location: Southeastern Australia Numbered ‘15’ (top right). Signed ‘CH. PRAVAL DEL.’ (lower left). Catalogued by Joppien and Smith as 'Portrait of an Australian Aborigine, drawing by Charles Praval'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1770-Jan 1771
Extent:
1 drawing

17. Add MS 15508, f 16

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Title:
Diagrammatic drawing of a marae: front elevation with forecourt drawn in plan, drawing by Tupaia
Scope & Content:
Location: [Tahiti] Side elevation of a marae. Numbered ‘16’ (top right). Joppien and Smith attribution of this and f. 17 (formerly f. 15) to Joseph Banks is discussed in The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages (1985-1987), 1, page 108. Glyndwr Williams, ‘Tupa’ia: Polynesian warrior, navigator, hig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1769
Extent:
1 drawing

18. Add MS 15508, f 17

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Title:
Diagrammatic drawing of a marae: side elevation, drawing by Tupaia
Scope & Content:
Location: [Tahiti] Numbered ‘17’ (top right). Joppien and Smith attribution of this and f. 16 (formerly f. 14) to Joseph Banks is discussed in The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages (1985-1987), 1, page 108.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1769
Extent:
1 drawing

19. Add MS 15508, f 18

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Title:
'Chart of the Society Islands'
Scope & Content:
Location: Otaheite [Tahiti] Possibly drawn by Joseph Banks, in collaboration with Tupaia. Title inscribed in pencil: ‘Society Isles discovered by Lieut. J. Cook in 1769’ (upper right). Pencil inscription on separate piece of paper formerly pasted on the folio below the chart, now at head of f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1769-Aug 1769
Extent:
1 map

20. Add MS 15508, f 19

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Title:
'Dancing cap or Whow from Ulhietea without its feathers', drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: Ulhietea [Rai'atea (French Polynesia)] Pencil inscriptions on sheet below the drawing: ‘Dancing cap or Whow from Ulhietea without its feathers’ (in Banks’s hand) and ‘by Miller’ (in a later hand). Numbered ‘19’ (top right).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771
Extent:
1 drawing