Weapons - Hawaii

Date: 1784 - 1779

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Record, John, active 1770s

Reference: C-131-067

Description: Drawing of six numbered articles. 1. Flat instrument edged with shark's teeth (possibly used as a knife or saw), rounded at the top and pointed at the handle end. String is attached to the handle for the hand to pass through. 2. Tool or weapon, rounded on one side with a string attached to the handle end. 3. Musical instrument (rattle), being a small gourd with an `umbrella'-shape covered with feathers, attached to the side of the gourd. 4. An idol with eyes represented by pieces of shell, and teeth made from dog's teeth. 5. Boar tusk bracelet with cord attached . 6. Dagger with cord attached. Source of descriptive information - Joppien, R, and Smith, B. The Art of Captain Cook's voyages Vol 3 Catalogues [Oxford University Press, 1987], p 553-554 Extended Title - From: Cook, J and King, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Nicholl and Cadell, 1784). Atlas. Plate 67 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 205 x 280 mm

Date: 1788

By: Cleveley, James, active 1776-1780; Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: C-036-018-a

Description: Shows the Resolution and Discovery in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, and the death of Cook at the hands of the Hawaiians Other Titles - Hawaii Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, hand-coloured, 430 x 590 mm on sheet 480 x 605 mm Provenance: Purchase: K A Webster Collection, London 1970

Date: 1784 - 1779

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Record, John, active 1770s

Reference: C-131-067-b

Description: Drawing of six numbered articles. 1. Flat instrument edged with shark's teeth (possibly used as a knife or saw), rounded at the top and pointed at the handle end. String is attached to the handle for the hand to pass through. 2. Tool or weapon, rounded on one side with a string attached to the handle end. 3. Musical instrument (rattle), being a small gourd with an `umbrella'-shape covered with feathers, attached to the side of the gourd. 4. An idol with eyes represented by pieces of shell, and teeth made from dog's teeth. 5. Boar tusk bracelet with cord attached . 6. Dagger with cord attached. Source of descriptive information - Joppien, R, and Smith, B. The Art of Captain Cook's voyages Vol 3 Catalogues [Oxford University Press, 1987], p 553-554 Extended Title - From: Cook, J and King, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Nicholl and Cadell, 1784). Atlas. Plate 67 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 205 x 280 mm

Date: 1784

By: Carter, George, 1737-1796; Smith, Samuel, 1745-; Hall, John, 1739-1797; Thornthwaite, J, active 1771-1795

Reference: C-036-002

Description: Captain Cook at the water's edge at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, using his gun as a club to repel a group of attacking Hawaiians, armed with spears and a slingshot. To the left are two group of sailors in rowboats, with some firing their muskets into the crowd. Cook is wearing a white jacket. There are originals in oils for this work at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, and at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Other Titles - Hawaii Inscriptions: Verso - Two inscriptions in pencil, one possibly a framer's, appearing to read Block & gold; the second illegible Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 428 x 588 mm (image), 482 x 622 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 510 x 669 mm Provenance: Unknown. Possibly purchased by Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1817

From: Various artists :[Profile, half- and full-portraits of Captain James Cook, including one of him as a young man, as well as a number of depictions of his death at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. 1759-1880, 1925]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Dodd, D P, active 1784-1785

Reference: A-451-016

Description: A version of the drawing by Dodd, but the image is reversed. Shows a scene in which Captain Cook has already been killed, and is being dragged away from the water's edge by two Hawaiian men, in a face-down position. He appears to be dressed entirely in white. A number of Hawaiians seem to be fighting over the dagger with which he has been stabbed. Cook's men, on board a rowboat just offshore, are helping others who have fled the scene into the boat. The Discovery, or possibly the Resolution, can be seen in the distance Possibly derived from Webber's drawing of 'The death of Captain Cook', engraved by Bartozolli and Byrne (ref C-36-010), with considerable alterations Other Titles - Captain Cook Extended Title - In: Manners & customs of nations (Philadelphia, 1817) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Copper engraving, 72 x 126 mm, on sheet 103 x 173 mm Provenance: Purchase: Antipodean Books, Maps and Prints, New York, February 2012

Date: 1785

From: Various artists :[Profile, half- and full-portraits of Captain James Cook, including one of him as a young man, as well as a number of depictions of his death at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. 1759-1880, 1925]

By: Dodd, D P, active 1784-1785; Birrell, O, active 1786-1800

Reference: A-451-007

Description: Shows a scene in which Captain Cook has already been killed, and is being dragged away from the water's edge by two Hawaiian men, in a face-down position. He appears to be dressed entirely in white. A number of Hawaiians seem to be fighting over the dagger with which he has been stabbed. Cook's men, on board a rowboat just offshore, are helping others who have fled the scene into the boat Referred to in: M K Beddie (ed) 'Bibliography of Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S., circumnavigator' (Sydney: Library of New South Wales, 1970; 2nd ed), no. 2586 Birrell's engraving is a copy of Dodd's drawing, first engaved by Thomas Cook and published in 1784, entitled 'The death of Captain James Cook, F.R.S. at Owhyhee in DMCCLXXIX' / drawn by D.P. Dodd & others who where [sic] on the spot; engraved by T. Cook Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Copper engraving, 104 x 175 mm, including margins, on cropped page of laid paper Provenance: Purchase: Antipodean Books, Maps and Prints, New York, February 2012

Date: 1784 - 1779

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Record, John, active 1770s

Reference: C-131-067-a

Description: Drawing of six numbered articles. 1. Flat instrument edged with shark's teeth (possibly used as a knife or saw), rounded at the top and pointed at the handle end. String is attached to the handle for the hand to pass through. 2. Tool or weapon, rounded on one side with a string attached to the handle end. 3. Musical instrument (rattle), being a small gourd with an `umbrella'-shape covered with feathers, attached to the side of the gourd. 4. An idol with eyes represented by pieces of shell, and teeth made from dog's teeth. 5. Boar tusk bracelet with cord attached . 6. Dagger with cord attached. Source of descriptive information - Joppien, R, and Smith, B. The Art of Captain Cook's voyages Vol 3 Catalogues [Oxford University Press, 1987], p 553-554 Extended Title - From: Cook, J and King, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Nicholl and Cadell, 1784). Atlas. Plate 67 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 205 x 280 mm

Date: 1784 - 1779

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Record, John, active 1770s

Reference: C-131-067-c

Description: Drawing of six numbered articles. 1. Flat instrument edged with shark's teeth (possibly used as a knife or saw), rounded at the top and pointed at the handle end. String is attached to the handle for the hand to pass through. 2. Tool or weapon, rounded on one side with a string attached to the handle end. 3. Musical instrument (rattle), being a small gourd with an `umbrella'-shape covered with feathers, attached to the side of the gourd. 4. An idol with eyes represented by pieces of shell, and teeth made from dog's teeth. 5. Boar tusk bracelet with cord attached . 6. Dagger with cord attached. Source of descriptive information - Joppien, R, and Smith, B. The Art of Captain Cook's voyages Vol 3 Catalogues [Oxford University Press, 1987], p 553-554 Extended Title - From: Cook, J and King, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Nicholl and Cadell, 1784). Atlas. Plate 67 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 205 x 280 mm

Date: 1789

By: Stockdale, J, active 1789

Reference: A-112-012

Description: Shows two knives, a comb and a lance, all from Hawaii, and associated with the third voyage of Captain Cook Other Titles - Hawaii Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 9.4 x 7.2 in

Date: 1820

From: Various artists :[Profile, half- and full-portraits of Captain James Cook, including one of him as a young man, as well as a number of depictions of his death at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. 1759-1880, 1925]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: A-451-014

Description: A view of Captain Cook at the water's edge at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, based on a detail from the Webber painting of ca 1781. Cook would seem to be gesturing to his men to hold their fire, while a Hawaiian man raises a spike in readiness to stab Cook in the back Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, 100 x 178 mm on sheet 114 x 182 mm

Date: 1781

From: Various artists :[Profile, half- and full-portraits of Captain James Cook, including one of him as a young man, as well as a number of depictions of his death at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. 1759-1880, 1925]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Cumberlege, Stephen Austen, 1747?-1828

Reference: A-451-004

Description: A view of Captain Cook at the water's edge at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. He and his men are mid-skirmish with a group of Hawaiian natives, and one directly behind Cook lifts a dagger to plunge into his back; the oblivious Cook gestures to his men in a rowboat at the left of the scene not to fire their weapons Referred to in: M K Beddie (ed) 'Bibliography of Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S., circumnavigator' (Sydney: Library of New South Wales, 1970; 2nd ed), no. 2650 Possibly derived from Webber's drawing of 'The death of Captain Cook', engraved by Bartozolli and Byrne (ref C-36-010), with considerable alterations Other Titles - Captain Cook Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Copper engraving, hand-coloured, 180 x 210 mm (plate mark), on laid paper 208 x 265 mm

Date: 1781

From: Various artists :[Profile, half- and full-portraits of Captain James Cook, including one of him as a young man, as well as a number of depictions of his death at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. 1759-1880, 1925]

By: Cleveley, James, active 1776-1780; Cundee, James, active 1800-1850

Reference: A-451-008

Description: A view of Captain Cook at the water's edge at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, probably based on Cleveley's 1788 work 'View of Owhyhee, one of the Sandwich Islands in the South Seas'. Shows Cook as a peace-maker, while fighting goes on around him, and he is oblivious to two men behind him, one wielding a club and the other a dagger. The Resolution and Discovery can be seen in the background. The clothing worn by the Hawaiians is decorative and detailed Referred to in: M K Beddie (ed) 'Bibliography of Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S., circumnavigator' (Sydney: Library of New South Wales, 1970; 2nd ed), no. 2644 Extended Title - From: Andrew Kippis, The life of Captain James Cook (Basil, 1788), opp. p. 515 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Copper engraving, 138 x 200 mm on sheet 183 x 215 mm Provenance: Purchase: Antipodean Books, Maps and Prints, New York, February 2012

Date: 1784

From: Various artists :[Profile, half- and full-portraits of Captain James Cook, including one of him as a young man, as well as a number of depictions of his death at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. 1759-1880, 1925]

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Robinson, G, active 1784

Reference: A-451-005

Description: A three-quarter, head-and-shoulders portrait of Captain Cook, in an oval frame, probably based on the Hodges portrait of 1775-1776, though the image is reversed. The portrait is draped in fabric and sits on top of a vignette of the death of Cook. The eye-piece end of a telescope can also be seen Referred to in: M K Beddie (ed) 'Bibliography of Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S., circumnavigator' (Sydney: Library of New South Wales, 1970; 2nd ed), no. 3553 Other Titles - Captain Cook Inscriptions: Verso - top right - Unrecorded [in pencil] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Copper engraving, 165 x 95 mm on sheet 178 x 112 mm

Date: 14 January 2018

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Winter, Mark, 1958-; Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0037904

Description: Digital cartoons by Chicane on political and social issues in New Zealand and internationally. Title from file name. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1785

From: Various artists :[Profile, half- and full-portraits of Captain James Cook, including one of him as a young man, as well as a number of depictions of his death at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. 1759-1880, 1925]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Dodd, D P, active 1784-1785

Reference: A-451-015

Description: Shows a scene in which Captain Cook has already been killed, and is being dragged away from the water's edge by two Hawaiian men, in a face-down position. He appears to be dressed entirely in white. A number of Hawaiians seem to be fighting over the dagger with which he has been stabbed. Cook's men, on board a rowboat just offshore, are helping others who have fled the scene into the boat Possibly derived from Webber's drawing of 'The death of Captain Cook', engraved by Bartozolli and Byrne (ref C-36-010), with considerable alterations Other Titles - Captain Cook Extended Title - From: Manners & customs of nations, p.498, pl.53 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Copper engraving, 75 x 130 mm, on sheet 96 x 168 mm

Date: 1779 - 1820

From: [Various artists] :[Plates from All the voyages round the world] - [London ; Sir Richard Phillips & Co., 1820]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: A-211-039

Description: An engraving showing the image by Webber reversed, with Cook on land at the left raising his hand to stop his men from firing from their rowing boat at the right. Extended Title - Published in Samuel Prior's "All the voyages round the world" Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, 80 x 117 mm on sheet 102 x 180 mm

Date: 1785 - 1779

By: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815; Webber, John, 1751-1793; Byrne, William, 1743-1805

Reference: C-036-010

Description: Captain Cook, standing centre right, being stabbed in the back by a Hawaiian man, with other sailors and Hawaiians on the land and yet more in a small boat at the water's edge. There are coconut palms beyond the group of Hawaiians and sailors, and cliffs in the background. An outrigger canoe is in the right foreground. The Library holds another copy of this engraving in a collection of uncatalogued bound plates from Cook's voyages in the Rare Books collection. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, black and white 425 x 575 mm (image)

Date: 1779 - 1787 - 1790

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: A-438-028

Description: An engraving showing the image by Webber reversed, with Cook on land at the left raising his hand to stop his men from firing from their rowing boat at the right. Molesworth Phillips, Lieutenant of the Marines, seated on the very edge of the water, fires his musket into the crowd of island inhabitants. Other Titles - Captain; February Extended Title - Probably from "A new, royal, authentic and complete system of universal geography, antient and modern", by Thomas Bankes [1787-1790 Quantity: 2 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 102 x 170 mm, plate 115 x 177 mm, on sheet 129 x 189 mm.