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41. 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

42. Add MS 15508, f 40

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Title:
Study of the head of a canoe and other carving details, drawing by Herman Diedrich Spöring
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zealand Numbered ‘40’ (top right). Pencil inscription: ‘Head of canoe’ (upper left). Drawings ff. 37-40 formerly mounted on a single folio.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1769-1770
Extent:

1 drawing

43. Add MS 15508, f 34

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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

44. 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

45. Add MS 15508, f 29

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Title:
Fishing tackle from Tahiti and New Zealand, drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: Tahiti. New Zealand Numbered ‘29’ (top right). Key inscribed in pencil in Banks’s hand: ‘1 Hook of wood from Otaheite 2-3 Hooks of Wood & bone from New Zealand 4 Float or Trimmer from Otaheite’. Dimensions in feet and inches inscribed in ink, probably in Miller’s hand, at top of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771-1772
Extent:
1 drawing

46. Add MS 15508, f 33

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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

47. Add MS 15508, f 24

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Add MS 15508, f 24
Title:
'Carvd trunk, or box, New Zeland', drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: New Zeland [New Zealand] Numbered ‘24’ (top right). Pencil inscription in Banks’s hand, on sheet, below drawing frame: ‘Carvd trunk, or box, New Zeland’. Pencil inscription in later hand: ‘pl 15 in Hawksworth’ (lower right). Dimensions in feet and inches inscribed in ink probably i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771-1772
Extent:
1 drawing

48. Add MS 15508, f 28

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Add MS 15508, f 28
Title:
Artefacts from Tahiti and New Zealand, drawing by John Frederick Miller
Scope & Content:
Location: Tahiti. New Zealand Signed in ink: ‘John Frederick Miller: del: 1771.’ (lower right, below frame). Numbered ‘28’ (top right). Pencil inscription in Banks’s hand, below the drawing: ‘1-3 Spades from Otaheite. 2. Planting stick from New Zeland’. Dimensions in feet and inches inscribe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771
Extent:
1 drawing

49. Add MS 15508, f 18

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Add MS 15508, f 18
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