Canoes and canoeing - Polynesia

Date: 1815 - 1835 - 1838 - 1818 - 1836 - 1843

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

By: Choris, Louis Andrevitch, 1795-1828; Monin, active 1835; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842

Reference: A-318-037

Description: Shows an outrigger canoe with triangular sail, and five people aboard. They are passing the waterfront of an island on which a group of dwellings is shown among palm trees and vegetation. Plate 147 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist and Monin as the engraver. Plate XIV of the Isles Sandwich section of Choris' "Voyage pittoreque autour du monde" (1822). Other Titles - Polynesie - Vue d'une ile dans le groupe Krusenstern Other Titles - Polynesia - View of an island in the Krusenstern group 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 - 147 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm.

Date: 1990

By: International Polynesian Canoe Federation

Reference: Eph-A-POLYNESIAN-1990-01

Description: Programme of the event held in Auckland. Includes schedule, a history of the International Polynesian Canoe Federation, an account of Tatou Hoe o Aotearoa (the New Zealand Polynesian Canoe Sporting Federation), and a list of the race participants from American Samoa, Australia, California, Cook Islands, Fiji, Hawaii, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Western Samoa, United States. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, each 210 x 145 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2005.

Date: 1838 - 1846

By: Le Breton, Louis Auguste Marie, 1818-1866; Sabatier, Leon Jean-Baptiste, -1887; Mayer, Auguste Etienne Francois, 1805-1890; A Gide, active 1846; Lemercier, Alfred Léon, active 1830s-1840s

Reference: B-112-016

Description: Shows a view framed by an overarching tree trunk, towards a bay where the Astrolabe is firing her cannon. Shows two canoes of the local Polynesian inhabitants of Mangareva Islands in French Polynesia, and local landforms and vegetation, during the visit of Dumont d'Urville in early August 1838. Dated from Dumont d'Urville's "Voyage au pole sud ...". Other Titles - Place on the island of Ao-Kena, Mangareva Islands ... drawn by Le Breton, lithographed by Sabatier, ship by Mayer Extended Title - From, Dumont d'Urville] Voyage au Pole Sud at dans l'Oceanie ... Atlas pittoresque, pl[ate] 40. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured lithograph, 260 x 380, on sheet 321 x 512 mm.