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31. Add MS 15508, f 30

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Add MS 15508, f 30
Title:
Artefacts from Tahiti and New Zealand, drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: Tahiti. New Zealand. Numbered ‘30’ (top right). Signed in ink: ‘J. F. Miller: del..’ (lower right, below frame). Key inscribed in pencil in Banks’s hand: ‘1 Skid or Scoup from New Zeland 2 Do. From Otaheite 3 Planting stick from New Zeland’. Dimensions inscribed in ink, probably in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771-1772
Extent:
1 drawing

32. Add MS 15508, f 31

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Add MS 15508, f 31
Title:
Paddles from New Zealand, Rurutu and Raiatea, drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zealand. Ohiteroa [Rurutu (French Polynesia)]. Ulhietea [Raitea (French Polynesia)]. Numbered ‘31’ (top right). Signed in ink: ‘J. F. Miller: del.’ (lower right, below frame). Key inscribed in pencil in Banks’s hand: ‘1. Paddle from New Zeland 2 Do. From Ohiteroa 3 Steering padd...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771-1772
Extent:
1 drawing

33. Add MS 15508, f 32

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Add MS 15508, f 32
Title:
'Tools of the South Sea Isles', drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: Society Islands Drawing of a tap beater and hatchet similar to those included in other drawings by John Frederick Miller (British Library Add MS 23921 f. 54a and f. 55a, respectively) later engraved by Record and published in John Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages undertaken by t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771
Extent:
1 drawing

34. Add MS 15508, f 33

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Add MS 15508, f 33
Title:
'Tools from the South Sea Isles', drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring
Scope & Content:
Location: Society Islands Numbered ‘33’ (top right). Signed in ink: ‘J. F. Miller 1771’ (lower left below frame). Title inscribed in pencil in Banks’s hands with key: ‘a a flute b Pestle of Stone to beat down their victuals into a soft paste which is looked upon by them as a delicacy c ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771
Extent:
1 drawing

35. Add MS 15508, f 34

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Add MS 15508, f 34
Title:
'Trumpet made of a shell New Zeland', drawing by Moses Griffith
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zeland [New Zealand] Recto: Drawing of a trumpet obtained by the Forsters in Queen Charlotte Sound on 4 June 1773 from a party of visiting Maoris during Captain Cook's second voyage. The specimen was given to Thomas Pennant, and acquired by the University Museum of Archaeology and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1775
Extent:
1 drawing

36. Add MS 15508, f 35

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Add MS 15508, f 35
Title:
'Ornament worn round the neck, New Zealand', drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zealand Numbered ‘35’ (top right). Drawing attributed to Herman Diedrich Spöring by Lysaght (A M Lysaght, ‘Banks’s Artists and his Endeavour Collections’, in British Museum Yearbook 3: Captain Cook and the South Pacific (1979), p. 40). Formerly mounted on a single folio with f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1769-1770
Extent:
1 drawing

37. Add MS 15508, f 36

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Add MS 15508, f 36
Title:
A Maori canoe: the stern, section and head, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zealand Recto: A Maori canoe: the stern, section and head. Numbered ‘36’ (top right). Dimensions of section inscribed in pencil: ‘3 feet 4 inches’; ’35 inches’; 18 inches’. Verso: study of an ornamented prow, inscribed ‘Head of a Canoe’ in Banks’s hand. Formerly mounted on a sin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1769-1770
Extent:

2 drawings

38. Add MS 15508, f 37

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Add MS 15508, f 37
Title:
Study of the stern of a Maori canoe, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zealand Numbered ‘37’ (top right). Study for drawing in British Library Add MS 23920 f. 78a. Drawings ff. 37-40 formerly mounted on a single folio.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1769-1770
Extent:

1 drawing

39. Add MS 15508, f 38

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Add MS 15508, f 38
Title:
Study of the head of a Maori canoe, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zealand Recto: Study of the head of a Maori canoe. Numbered ‘38’ (top right). Inscribed in pencil in Banks’s hand: ‘Head of a Canoe’ (upper right). Verso: Study of a Maori boat carving. Drawings ff. 37-40 formerly mounted on a single folio.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1769-1770
Extent:

2 drawings

40. Add MS 15508, f 39

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Add MS 15508, f 39
Title:
Study of the head of a Maori canoe, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zealand Numbered ‘39’ (top right). Drawings ff. 37-40 formerly mounted on a single folio.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1769-1770
Extent:

1 drawing