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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 14

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Add MS 15508, f 14
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

34. Add MS 15508, f 10

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Add MS 15508, f 10
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

35. Add MS 15508, f 47

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Add MS 15508, f 47
Title:
Studies of tattoo designs: face, profile view and design detail, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zealand Numbered ‘47’ (top right). Attributed to Spöring by Joppien and Smith. Attributed to Sydney Parkinson by Lysaght (A M Lysaght, The Journal of Joseph Banks in the Endeavour (1980), p. 64). Drawings ff. 43-48 formerly mounted on a single folio.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1769
Extent:

1 drawing

36. Add MS 15508, f 19

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Add MS 15508, f 19
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

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 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

40. 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