Funeral rites and ceremonies - French Polynesia - Marquesas Islands

Date: 1800 - 1810

From: Artist unknown :[South Seas views from Galleria universale di tutti i popoli del mondo. Venezia, Antonelli, 1841]

Reference: A-119-044

Description: Plate 76, volume 3 of an illustrated Italian publication. An upper plate showing houses by the shore of the Navigators Islands, (Samoa). A lower plate showing a burial ground with sculptures and a small building The name York Island appears to be a contraction of Duke of York Island, Papua New Guinea Other Titles - Dwellings of the Navigators Islands [Samoa]. Morai on Duke of York Island. [Papua New Guinea. Translation] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Two hand-coloured lithographs on one sheet, 296 x 201 mm

Date: 1804 - 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; Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb, 1769-1857; Boys, active 1835

Reference: A-318-034

Description: Shows two native figures in the right foreground, walking past two carved statues, and pillars behind them with straight leaves protruding from their tops. Beyond these are some buildings of a compound which is the cemetery. A palm and a large-leaved plant are shown, and there is a range of mountains in the distance. Plate 138 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist and Boys as the engraver. Other Titles - Polynesie - Morai (espece de cimitiere) a Nouka-Hiva Other Titles - Polynesia - Morai (cemetery) at Nuku Hiva 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 - 138 Krusenstern's account mentions Dr Tilesius drawing a sketch of this cemetery on 12 May 1804. (see Biblioteca Australiana edition of English translation, 1968, volume 1, page 127) - it is also quoted in French in the French version of Domeny de Rienzi, volume 2, page 247. 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: 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 - 1846 - 1840

By: Le Breton, Louis Auguste Marie, 1818-1866; Bichebois, active 1840s; Blanchard, P, active 1846; A Gide, active 1846; Thierry Freres (Firm)

Reference: B-112-008

Description: Shows a view of a tomb in the forest in Nuku Hiva. The structure appears to be made of woven flax, with upright poles which have white sheets knotted to them. Other Titles - Tomb of a chief in Nuku Hiva Extended Title - From, Dumont d'Urville's "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ... 1837-1840" (Paris, 1846). Atlas pittoresque, pl[ate] 55. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 240 x 355 mm, on sheet 340 x 528 mm.

Date: 1774 - 1804 - 1841

By: Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb, 1769-1857; Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Hill, Julian, active 1996-2009

Reference: A-327-041

Description: Two images. The upper one, based on an original by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilnau shows a burial ground in Nuku Hiva with two effigies seated on a raised platform between two sheaves of bound stalks or branches. Two figures stand in the right foreground, and there is a columned shelter or dwelling in the right background, beneath rocky volcanic peaks (cf A-318-034, done in 1804 on Krusenstern's voyage). The lower image shows a canoe with a triangular sail. There are seven figures on board, the one at the left at the stern using a large paddle to propel the boat. The lower picture shows some similarities to William Hodges' "Resolution Bay in the Marquesas" of 1777. The Isola Mandana may be the Marquesas, which were discovered by Mandana in the late 16th century. Also compare with A-318-033, "Polinesia - Piroghe delle isole Nuca-iva". [April 1774] Other Titles - Places of burial; Canoe of Mandana Island Extended Title - From "Galleria universale di tutti i popoli del mondo", by Guiseppe Antonelli. Venezia, 1841. Volume 3, plate 88. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).