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21. Add MS 15508, f 7

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Title:
A breast-plate or gorget from Tahiti, drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771
Extent:
1 drawing

22. Add MS 15508, f 3

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Title:
'Otaheite View at the Back of Point Venus towards Pithas Long House', drawing by Sydney Parkinson
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1769
Extent:
1 drawing

23. 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

24. Add MS 15508, f 22

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Title:
'Indian Fortification on the Island of Achei no Mauwe', drawing by John James Barralet
Scope & Content:
Location: [Motuarohia, Bay of Islands] Numbered ‘22’ (top right). Signed on drawing: ‘J. J. Barralet’ (lower right). Pencil inscription on sheet below drawing, Banks’s hand: ‘Indian Fortification on the Island of Achei no Mauwe’. Based on a sketch by Herman Diedrich Spöring, British Library...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1772
Extent:
1 drawing

25. Add MS 15508, f 43

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Title:
Studies of tattoo designs: buttock, torso and face designs, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zealand Recto: Studies of tattoo designs: buttock, torso and face designs. Numbered ‘43’ (top right). Verso: two sketches of tattoo designs, one at each end of the sheet. Attributed to Spöring by Joppien and Smith. Attributed to Sydney Parkinson by Lysaght (A M Lysaght, The Jou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1769
Extent:

2 drawings

26. Add MS 15508, f 46

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Title:
Studies of tattoo designs: half a face, front view, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zealand Recto: Studies of tattoo designs: half a face, front view. Numbered ‘46’ (top right). Inscribed in pencil: ‘No. 2’ below the drawing. Verso: facial tattoo designs, profile view. Attributed to Spöring by Joppien and Smith. Attributed to Sydney Parkinson by Lysaght (A M Ly...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1769
Extent:

2 drawings

27. Add MS 15508, f 20

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Title:
'Dancing cap calld Whow from Ulietea', drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: Ulietea [Rai'atea (French Polynesia)] Numbered ‘20’ (top right). Pencil inscriptions on sheet below the drawing: ‘Dancing cap calld Whow from Ulietea’ (in Banks’s hand) and ‘by Miller’ (in a later hand).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771
Extent:
1 drawing

28. Add MS 15508, f 25

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Title:
'Patoo patoos or bludgeons from New Zeland', drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zeland [New Zealand] Numbered ‘25’ (top right). Title inscribed in pencil in Banks’s hand, on sheet below drawing: ‘Patoo patoos or bludgeons from New Zeland’. Pencil inscription: ‘pl. 14’ (lower right), referring to plate in John Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages Undertake...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771-1772
Extent:
1 drawing

29. Add MS 15508, f 26

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Title:
'Patoo patoo or bludgeon from New Zeland' drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zeland [New Zealand] Numbered ‘26’ (top right). Title inscribed in pencil in Banks’s hand, on sheet below drawing: ‘Patoo patoo or bludgeon from New Zeland’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771-1772
Extent:
1 drawing

30. Add MS 15508, f 27

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Add MS 15508, f 27
Title:
Fishing hooks from Tahiti and New Zealand, drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: Otaheite [Tahiti]. New Zeland [New Zealand] Date: [1771-1772] Numbered ‘27’ (top right). Key inscribed in pencil in Banks’s hand: ‘1. Decoy to Catch Cuttle fish from Otaheite 2. Hook of Nacre Shell from Do. 3. Do. of mother of Pearl from Do. 4. Do. of Wood & bone from New Z...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771-1772
Extent:
1 drawing