Clothing and dress - French Polynesia - Marquesas Islands

Date: 1776 - 1777

From: Hodges, William, 1728-1779 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's second voyage. W Hodges delt; sculp. by various hands] - London, 1776-1777

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Hall, John, 1739-1797

Reference: C-051-014

Description: Half-length frontal portrait of a Marquesan chief. His face is tattooed and he wears an elaborate head-dress, large shell earrings, a gorget and draped garment After a drawing by William Hodges on James Cook's 2nd circummnavigation Trimmed inside plate marks Published in Cook, James. A voyage towards the South Pole (London, Strahan, 1777) Pl 36 Other Titles - Santa Christina, Marquesas Islands Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 310 x 240 mm

Date: 1774 - 1800 - 1830

From: [Various artists] :[Illustrations to Cook's voyages - London? 18--?]

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797

Reference: A-111-083

Description: Shows two Marquesan men with elaborate head-dresses in a canoe in the foreground, another manned canoe with a triangular sail to the right, two further canoes in the background and Cook's ship the Resolution in a sheltered cove in the rocky headland in the background. Based on a drawing by William Hodges, artist on Cook's second voyage. The Resolution visited this area in April 1774. Cook lost contact with the Adventure in October 1773 and continued this voyage alone with his crew on the Resolution. The main original drawing on which this engraving is based is in the Mitchell Library and a related drawing is in the British Library. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, image 99 x 171 mm, on sheet 145 x 224 mm

Date: 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Costume plates of Oceania] Torino [Turin] ; Fontana, 1844

By: Lacoste, pere et fils, active 1830-1840s; Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb, 1769-1857

Reference: A-119-030

Description: Standing portrait of a warrior from Nuku Hiva, with his body entirely tattooed. He wears a narrow loin cloth, a headdress incorporating teeth, and what appears to be a bone necklace. He carries a gourd and a long-handled broad-bladed club whose decoration includes a face. Artist is possibly Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau, who made similar pictures, during the voyage of Krusenstern on the Nadezhda and Neva, in 1803-1806. See reproduction of a similar image in "Great voyages of exploration; the golden age of discovery in the Pacific", by Jacques Brosse, translated by Stanley Hochman (Doubleday, 1983), page 120. Wahlen's book is a translation of his "Moeurs, usages et coutumes de tous les peuples du monde..." Bruxelles, 1843-44. Vol. 4. Other Titles - Nuku Hiva, Noukahiva Extended Title - From: Wahlen, A. Usi e costumi sociali, politici, et religiosi... Vol. 2 Oceania. Torino, 1844-1847. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, handcoloured, on sheet 270 x 175 mm.

Date: 1776

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Hall, John, 1739-1797

Reference: C-051-014-a

Description: Half-length frontal portrait of a Marquesan chief. His face is tattooed and he wears an elaborate head-dress, large shell earrings, a gorget and draped garments After a drawing made by William Hodges on Cook's 2nd circumnavigation Trimmed inside plate marks Published in Cook, James. A voyage towards the South Pole. (London, Strahan, 1777). Pl 36 Other Titles - Santa Christina, Marquesas Islands Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 310 x 240 mm

Date: 1776

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Hall, John, 1739-1797

Reference: C-051-014-b

Description: Half-length frontal portrait of a Marquesan chief. His face is tattooed and he wears an elaborate head-dress, large shell earrings, a gorget and draped garment After drawing on Cook's 2nd voyage Trimmed inside plate marks Published in Cook J. A voyage towards the South Pole Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 310 x 240 mm

Reference: A-117-002

Description: Shows a large group of Marquesans outside a hut. One man is beating three large drums. To the right is a group of four European men interacting with several Marquesan adults and children. In the centre foreground, a pig is being killed. Marked as plate number 45, probably from a book illustration Other Titles - Nuku Hiva Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 128 x 190 mm

Date: 1776

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Hall, John, 1739-1797

Reference: C-051-011-a

Description: Frontal portrait of a young woman to half-way down her torso. Her head and shoulders are draped with a woven patterned cloth and she is wearing a necklace. One breast is exposed. After drawing on Cook's 2nd voyage Trimmed inside plate marks Extended Title - Fron: Cook, James. A voyage towards the South Pole. (London, 1777) Pl. 37 Quantity: 2 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 310 x 237 mm

Date: 1774 - 1776

From: Galimberti, Francesco, 1755-1803 :Natives of America and the Pacific Islands. Original drawings circa 1780.

By: Galimberti, Francesco, 1755-1803; Hodges, William, 1744-1797

Reference: E-215-f-005

Description: Full length standing portrait of a chief of Santa Christina in the Marquesas. He wears a large headdress, a necklet and long robe. He holds a weapon in his right hand. Saint Christina Island in the Marquesas, was visited by Captain Cook on his second voyage, 7/4/1774. After William Hodges. Chief at Santa Christina. 1776. (Copy held at C-051-014) Other Titles - Hodges, William. Chief of the Island of Santa Christina in America. Marquesas Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Graphite 246 x 174 mm

Date: 1774 - 1835 - 1838 - 1836 - 1843

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Boys, active 1835; Pouncy, Benjamin Thomas, -1799

Reference: A-318-033

Description: Shows two canoes, the one in the foreground manned by two figures in tall feather [?] headdresses, beards, cloths around the lower body. The canoe has a high stern and a row of three carved boards standing upright in the prow. The further canoe has six tattooed figures aboard, engaged in rowing. That canoe appears to be double-prowed with an outrigger, and has a high seat in the back. There are distant mountainous headlands in the background. Probably copied from B T Pouncy's engraving after Hodges. The further boat has no sail however. Plate 137 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist and Boys as the engraver. Other Titles - Polynesie - Pirogues des iles Nouka-Hiva Other Titles - Polynesia - War canoes of Nuku Hiva Other Titles - Resolution Bay [Vaitahu Bay in St Christina / Tahuata] in the Marquesas Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 137 William Hodges accompanied Cook's second voyage, 1772-75. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: 1774

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Pouncy, Benjamin Thomas, -1799

Reference: C-051-021

Description: Shows two Marquesan men with elaborate head-dresses in a canoe in the foreground, another manned canoe with sail to the right, two further canoes in the background and Cook's ship the Resolution in a sheltered cove in the rocky headland in the background. Extended Title - From: Cook, James. A voyage towards the South Pole, Plate 32. Based on a drawing by William Hodges, artist on Cook's second voyage. The Resolution visited this area in April 1774. Cook lost contact with the Adventure in October 1773 and continued this voyage alone with his crew on the Resolution. The main original drawing on which this engraving is based is in the Mitchell Library and a related drawing is in the British Library. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured on paper 239 x 382 mm on sheet 310 x 470 mm

Date: 1849 - 1843 - 1850

By: Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb, 1769-1857; Berghaus, Heinrich Karl Wilhelm, 1797-1884

Reference: A-449-009

Description: Standing portrait of a warrior from Nuku Hiva, with his body entirely tattooed. He wears a narrow loin cloth, a headdress incorporating teeth, and what appears to be a bone necklace. He carries a gourd and a long-handled broad-bladed club whose decoration includes a face. The same or similar face motif is tattooed on the front of his thighs. Artist is possibly Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau, who made similar pictures, during the voyage of Krusenstern on the Nadezhda and Neva, in 1803-1806. The wood engraving was possibly originally published in Augustus Wahlen, Moeurs, usages et costumes de tous les peuples du monde, Oceanie (Bruxelles: A La Librairie Historique-Artistique, 1843), facing p.200 One modification has been made to the Swedish impression from the one published in Wahlen, namely the removal of most of the inscription PANNEMAKER. LISBET., originally beneath the figure's right foot, with only the last letter and the stop (T.) remaining Other Titles - Native of Nuku Hiva (translation from the Swedish) Extended Title - From: Dr Heinrich Berghaus, Jordens Folkslag, efter deras egendomlighet (Stockholm: Bonniers Forlag, 1849-1850) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, hand-coloured with gum arabic, on sheet 242 x 159 mm

Date: 1776

From: Hodges, William, 1728-1779 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's second voyage. W Hodges delt; sculp. by various hands] - London, 1776-1777

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Hall, John, 1739-1797

Reference: C-051-011

Description: Frontal portrait of a young woman to half-way down her torso. Her head and shoulders are draped with a woven patterned cloth and she is wearing a necklace. One breast is exposed. After drawing on Cook's 2nd voyage Trimmed inside plate marks Other Titles - Santa Christina, Marquesas Islands Extended Title - From: Cook, James. A voyage towards the South Pole. (London, 1777) Pl. 37 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 310 x 237 mm

Date: 1774 - 1810 - 1830

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Bonatti, D K, active 1800-1820s; Hill, Julian, active 1996-2009

Reference: A-054-015

Description: Shows two images, rearranged from originals by Williams Hodges. In the upper half there is the woman of Santa Christina with a blue scarf around her head and shoulders. Beside her is the Chief, with a feathered headdress and pink robes. In the lower half, the items on Hodges "Ornaments and weapons at the Marquesas" are shown in an arrangement different from that produced after Hodges by Charles Chapman, but all the same items are present. The ornaments and weapons, identified in Joppien & Smith's "Art of Captain Cook's voyages" (1985), volume 2, page 207, are: a gorget ornamented with red pease; an ornament for the head; a club; a head-dress; a fan. From an unknown Italian publication. One of the etchers was Angelo Biasioli, 1790-1830. Cook was in the Marquesas on his second voyage in 1774. Santa Christina is also known as Tahuata. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - D K Bonatti dis e inc. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Handpainted aquatint, plate 260 x 217 mm on loose page, 340 x 240 mm. Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from a dealer in Washington DC.

Date: 1854 - 1856

From: Pottier, H J A fl 1855 :Souvenirs de Taiti. [Album. 1854-56].

By: Pottier, H J A, active 1855; Sergent, (Monsieur), active 1900s?

Reference: E-548-021

Description: Shows native in left foreground, standing looking at thatched shrine or burial platform mounted between clefts of two trees. Cloth hangs out from under the thatch cover of the burial platform. Probably not in Tahiti at all (this title written below in a later hand), although funerary customs in Tahiti are similar - see artists Webber and Hodges, on Cook's voyages. No shrine exactly the same has been found, to verify location. Other Titles - Kanak tomb / grave Other Titles - Taiti. Other Titles - Tahiti Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - H.Pottier; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil on paper 111 x 142 mm, stuck to page 215 x 273 mm.

Date: 1837 - 1840

From: Le Guillou, Elie Jean Francois, b. 1806 :Voyage autour du monde de l'Astrolabe et de la Zelee sous les ordres du contre-amiral Dumont d'Urville ... par Elie Le Gillou ... ouvrage enriche de nombreux dessins et de notes scientifiques ... par J. Arago. Paris, Berquet et Petion, 1844.

By: Le Guillou, Elie Jean Francois, 1806-

Reference: PUBL-0073-128

Description: Scene aboard Dumont d'Urville's vessel the Zelee in the Marquesas Islands, showing a circle of seated women, their arms raised in a dance. The women are wearing loincloths or skirts and are tattooed. They are watched by French sailors and others travelling with Dumont d'Urville. Other Titles - Dance of the women of Nouka Hiva, Marquesas Islands, on board the Zelee. Extended Title - From: Le Guillou, E. J. F. Voyage autour du monde de l'Astrolabe et de la Zelee ... Paris, Berquet et Petion, 1844. opp. p. 128. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 109 x 164 mm

Date: 1803

By: Klauber, Ignaz Sebastian, 1753-1817; Honkoop (Firm); Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Muldoon, Thea Dale (Dame), 1927-2015

Reference: A-293-002

Description: Shows two Marquesan men with elaborate head-dresses in a canoe in the foreground, another manned canoe with sail to the right, two further canoes in the background and Cook's ship the Resolution in a sheltered cove in the rocky headland in the background. The attribution to Klauber as the engraver is based on the fact that he has signed the majority of the engravings in the Dutch volume. Based on a drawing by William Hodges, artist on Cook's second voyage. The Resolution visited this area in April 1774. Cook lost contact with the Adventure in October 1773 and continued this voyage alone with his crew on the Resolution. The main original drawing on which this engraving is based is in the Mitchell Library and a related drawing is in the British Library. This version is a Dutch re-working of the engraving in Cook's A voyage towards the South Pole. London, 1777, engraved by B.T.Pouncy, Plate 32. Other Titles - View of Resolution Bay, at the island Santa Christina, one of the Marquesas Islands. Voyages around the world. Extended Title - From: Cook, James. Reizen rondom de waerld. Leyden: Honkoop, 1803, plate 43. Library holds Cook's Reizen rondom de waerld at fR910.4/COOK/REIZ Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, black and white on paper trimmed to plate-marks 207 x 352 mm on sheet 236 x 379 mm Provenance: Probable donation to Prime Minister, Sir Robert Muldoon by a Dutch V.I.P.

Date: 1819 - 1837

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Castiaux, Jean-Baptiste, active 1820-1830s; Blocquel, Simon Francois, 1780-1863

Reference: A-293-005

Description: Two head and shoulders portraits, brightly painted in orange and green. The portrait on the left shows a bearded man of Easter Island, with feather headdress, and large holes in the lobes of his ears. The portrait on the right shows a chief of the island of Santa Christina, one of the Marquesas Islands. He wears a large feather headdress, with wound cloth and a medallion supporting it. He has large white ear-plates and a large pendant gorget hanging below his curled beard. There is text beneath each portrait, the text under the left portrait relating when Easter Island was discovered. "The inhabitants of this island live in complete anarchy. They feed especially on potatoes, and because they have no fresh water they drink sea water". The text under the right portrait says that the island was visited by Captain Cook in 1774, and is 9 leagues in circumference. The breadfruit found there are the best in all the islands of the Southern Ocean. The name of the chief shown is Honoo. See article 'Simon Blocquel, imagier et editeur lillois', about the printer Simon Blocquel, by Roger D J Collins, in "Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes", tome XLI, no 81 (December 1985), pp 235-240 (Copy in ATL files C.AA.001.006.004, 16 December 2008). Other Titles - Man of Easter Island Other Titles - Chief of the island of Santa Christina, one of the Marquesas islands in the Grand Ocean Quantity: 2 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engravings, each around 185 x 125 mm, on sheet 220 x 370 mm.

Date: 1804

From: Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von, 1774-1852 :Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bis 1807. Frankfurt, Friedrich Wilmans, 1812-1814

Reference: PUBL-0184-07

Description: A Marquesan man, shown full length, standing, a spear in his right hand, a fan in his left. He is wearing a loincloth and is tattooed from head to foot He has a short beard, wears ear ornaments and wears his hair in two cones at the top of his head, with a shaved or bald patch in the centre. Held in the New Zealand and Pacific book collection at 910.4/p/LAN/1812 Other Titles - An inhabintant of the Island of Nukahiva [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 213 x 172 mm

Date: 1796

By: Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810; Labrousse, L, active 1796

Reference: A-442-034

Description: Engraving shows a woman of Santa Cristina (Tahuata), an island in the Marquesas, wearing a plumed headdress. She has a striped cloak tied around her shoulders, a short bodice with a geometric pattern, and a short skirt with a wide belt tied to hang centrally. She wears ornaments of straps and feathers around her calves. Her left hand leans on a long staff with four "teeth" near its base, and holds in her right hand a basket of fruit and foliage. In the distance is a hut overhung by palm trees. The work is likely to be from Grasset de Saint-Sauveur's "Encyclopedie des voyages ..." published in Paris in 1796. Other Titles - Sculpsit Other Titles - Woman of Santa Cristina Island Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Handcoloured engraving, image 170 x 117 mm, plate 192 x 142 mm, on page 249 x 183 mm.

Date: 1796

By: Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810; Laroque, J, active 1796

Reference: A-442-035

Description: Engraving shows a man of Santa Cristina (Tahuata), an island in the Marquesas, wearing a feather headdress. He wears a cloak hanging down his back, a short fringed skirt, and fringed garters on his upper arms and upper calves. A large pendant hangs around his neck, and his feather earrings have ribbons haning from them. He hold a large club in his left hand, and in his right hand he holds up an unidentified yellow ridged fruit. The work is likely to be from Grasset de Saint-Sauveur's "Encyclopedie des voyages ..." published in Paris in 1796. Other Titles - Sculpsit Other Titles - Man of Santa Cristina Island Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Handcoloured engraving, image 178 x 117 mm, plate 218 x 144 mm, on page 249 x 184 mm.