Clothing and dress - French Polynesia - Tahiti (Island)

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

Reference: C-082-032

Description: Half-length frontal portraits of two Tahitian men from Borabora. The man on the right (Tefaaora) has tattoo on his upper arm. The man on the left is wearing a European-style garment with buttons Based on an ink drawing by Jules LeJeune, artist with Duperrey during his 1824-1826 visit to the Pacific. Other Titles - Society Islands. Chiefs of Borabora Island [translation] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 130 x 200 mm

Date: 1777 - 1784

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

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Sherwin, John Keyse, 1751-1790

Reference: C-131-028-b

Description: A scene in Tahiti, in 1777, with two men and two women dancing before a hut, spectators on either side. Three drummers are in the background under the shelter of the hut, with a fourth person clapping the rhythm. The dancers appear to be standing on a large woven mat. Banana palms, breadfruit trees and coconut palms can be seen in the background. Other Titles - Tahiti Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 28 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 227 x 379 mm (image), 263 x 405 mm (plate mark)

Date: ca 1900 - 1930

By: Gorton, F G, active 1930s

Reference: PAColl-4381

Description: Set of photographs of Tahiti: Motu-uta (Quarantine Island) with a sea reef in the distance and some people in canoes in the foreground; a view over Papeete with a church in the foreground; the steamer Croix du Sud and a schooner at the government wharf; a man in traditional clothing standing in a cave with a life size stone carving in the shape of a man next to him; a yacht in a bay silhouetted against the sunset; a Tahitian couple on a hill overlooking a broad bay; and a group of men with spears standing in a circle round some women crouching next to what may be a dead person - a man is standing behind the group with his arms raised. Also from the same set are four photographs of a group of Europeans on board a ship, three showing them a holding bouquetsll in fancy dress. Also included are photographs of four women in white dresses wearing elaborate hats and holding bouquets, and a group of men and women onl a picnic with a white tablecloth laid with tea cups etc. F G Gorton was the honorary consulate to the British consul in Tahiti in 1936 and may have assembled this collection. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1777 - 1784

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

By: Byrne, William, 1743-1805

Reference: C-131-031

Description: A sweeping view of Fare Harbour with peaked mountains in the back. In the bay are the `Resolution' and the `Discovery' , and many native craft. Palm trees are at the centre and left. By the shore a group of natives are tending a double canoe with a deck-house. In the background and along the shore are native huts. On the far left is Mount Turi. Other Titles - Fare Harbour Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 31 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 260 x 488 mm

Date: 1777 - 1784

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

By: Sherwin, John Keyse, 1751-1790

Reference: C-131-029-c

Description: A girl dancing in a long gown with highly puckered ruffs of tapa attached to the back of the waist and feathery pompons covering the breats. Several long tassels are hanging from her waist, and on her head is wearing a headdress of plaited hair ormanented with blossoms of Cape jasmine. A mat of rushes has been laid to dance upon. In the background is vegatation and a thatched building. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 29 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 277 x 227 mm

Date: 1778 - 1800

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Noble, George, active 1795-1806; Hogg and Company

Reference: A-111-058

Description: Two portraits of Tahitian woman from James Cook's third voyage to Tahiti in 1779. The left view has a background of coconut palms and the woman is wearing a very full skirt; the right view includes a dwelling, a banana palm and other bush and the woman is dancing and wearing a hat and a long draped garment with full ruffles at the back Derived from engravings after Webber on Cook's 3rd voyage in" Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784. Vol 2 pl 27 & 28. Extended Title - From: Anderson, G. W. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages round the world. [Another edition] Pl 106. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on laid paper 222 x 331 mm (image) 230 x 350 mm (plate mark) on sheet 235 x 382 mm

Date: 1769 - 1773 - 1774

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785; Warren, Charles Turner, 1762-1823; Hogg and Company; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: B-085-011

Description: Three Raiatean women dancing, two with elaborate ruffs at the waists of their skirts, watched by other Raiateans on the right and accompanied by a flute-player and two drummers on the left, with a child holding a gourd beside a third drum. The women are dancing on woven matting inside a large open dwelling, supported by wooden pillars and with a beamed ceiling. Coconut palms and pandanus can be seen outside on the left and right. The Endeavour visited Raiatea, one of the Society Islands group near Tahiti in July - August 1769. The drawing is based on sketches of dancers by Parkinson, with the details of the building and background from lost sketches, probably also by Parkinson. The State Library of New South Wales has a pen and wash sketch by Cipriani on which this engraving may be based. There is also an oil in England of the same scene. See Joppien & Smith. The art of Captain Cook's voyages, vol I, cat. no. 1.83 to 1.87C, p.140-152. Other Titles - Utietea = Raiatea Extended Title - From: Anderson, G. W. A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages around the world. Plate 99. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 198 x 325 mm (image); 223 x 351 (plate-mark) on sheet 234 x 383 mm

Date: 1774

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797

Reference: B-054-045

Description: Shows the assembled Tahitian fleet during Cook's second circumnavigation, 1772-1775, during his second visit to Tahiti, 1774. Based on an oil by Hodges "Review of the War Galleys at Tahiti" at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. See Joppien & Smith 2.114 & 2.114A Other Titles - The fleet of Tahiti assembled at Oparee. 1774 Extended Title - From: Cook, James, 1728-1779. Reizen rondom de waerld. Leyden, 1803. Plate XLVII (47) Dutch translation of A voyage towards the South Pole...London, 1777, Vol I, Plate LXI (41) betw. pages 342 & 343 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 205 x 365 to plate-mark on sheet 232 x 378 mm (sight)

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: Stuart, Hal, active 1930s?; Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994

Reference: A-428-027

Description: Shows at left a black-robed priest holding a cross up to a cross-centred sun at top right. At lower left a carved statue squats, and is approached from the right by an axe-wielding warrior in headdress and skirt. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print 250 x 204 mm.

Date: 1800

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: A-111-066

Description: A young Tahitian woman with her lower limbs wrapped in a large roll of tapa, two feathered gorgets on a pole in front of her Derived from engraving after Webber on Cook's 3rd voyage in: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784. Pl. 27. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 239 x 188 mm, on sheet 296 x 238 mm

Date: 1777 - 1784

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

By: Sherwin, John Keyse, 1751-1790

Reference: C-131-029-b

Description: A girl dancing in a long gown with highly puckered ruffs of tapa attached to the back of the waist and feathery pompons covering the breats. Several long tassels are hanging from her waist, and on her head is wearing a headdress of plaited hair ormanented with blossoms of Cape jasmine. A mat of rushes has been laid to dance upon. In the background is vegatation and a thatched building. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 29 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 277 x 227 mm

Date: 1769 - 1800 - 1830

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

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771

Reference: A-111-077

Description: Shows a masked and robed ceremonial figure with a long staff in the left foreground. In the centre middle background is a fence enclosure containing a roofed platform on which a shrouded body is lying. There is a coconut palm at the far left, and a boy climbs a tree at the far right. Other Titles - Tahiti Parkinson made pictures for this event in 1769, on Cook's first voyage. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, image 100 x 174 mm, on sheet 144 x 222 mm

Date: 1768 - 1820 - 1769

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

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771

Reference: A-211-068

Description: A scene in Raiatea in 1769, with three robed women dancing under a large roofed shelter, spectators behind them and on either side. There is a drummer at the left. After Parkinson's drawing on Cook's first voyage of Raiatean women dancing, engraved and published in John Hawkesworth and in G W Anderson (1784) Plate 99 Other Titles - lThe inside view of a house in the island of Ulietea, with an elegant representation of a dance to the music of that country. ... 1784 Extended Title - Published in Samuel Prior's "All the voyages round the world" , page 514. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, b&w, 80 x 118 mm on sheet, 104 x 179 mm.

Date: 1777 - 1784

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

By: Sherwin, John Keyse, 1751-1790

Reference: C-131-029-a

Description: A girl dancing in a long gown with highly puckered ruffs of tapa attached to the back of the waist and feathery pompons covering the breats. Several long tassels are hanging from her waist, and on her head is wearing a headdress of plaited hair ormanented with blossoms of Cape jasmine. A mat of rushes has been laid to dance upon. In the background is vegatation and a thatched building. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 29 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 277 x 227 mm

Date: 1779

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

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: A-119-028

Description: Standing portrait of a young Tahitian woman, dancing. She is wearing a full skirt with ruffled sections at the waist, and tassles suspended from the waist and a flat-topped hat Wahlen's book is a translation of his "Moeurs, usages et coutumes de tous les peuples du monde..." Bruxelles, 1843-44. Vol. 4. Extended Title - From: Wahlen, A. Usi e costumi sociali, politici, et religiosi... Vol. 2 Oceania. Torino, 1844-1847. After John Webber's engraving made to illustrate Captain Cook's third voyage, A dance in Otaheite, published 1784. Webber was in Tahiti in 1779 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, handcoloured, on sheet 270 x 175 mm.

Date: 1777 - 1784

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

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Sherwin, John Keyse, 1751-1790

Reference: C-131-028-c

Description: A scene in Tahiti, in 1777, with two men and two women dancing before a hut, spectators on either side. Three drummers are in the background under the shelter of the hut, with a fourth person clapping the rhythm. The dancers appear to be standing on a large woven mat. Banana palms, breadfruit trees and coconut palms can be seen in the background. Other Titles - Tahiti Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 28 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 227 x 379 mm (image), 263 x 405 mm (plate mark)

Date: 1880

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-061-026

Description: Shows natives in European dress, with huts and a school in the background. Signed: H.A.S. Painted while the artist was serving as paymaster on board H.M.S. Pelican. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 228 x 292 mm

Date: 1777 - 1773

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Johnson, Isaac, active 1799-1816

Reference: A-111-023

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Tu, Pomare I of Tahiti, closely resembling the engraved portrait after William Hodges' drawing done on James Cook's 2nd voyage. Tu has a full head of frizzy hair and is wearing a woven garment with fringed collar. Title from engraving of same subject by J Hall after drawing by W Hodges, published in: Cook, J. A voyage towards the South Pole... London 1777. Plate 38 Sotheby's catalogue suggests that this and A-111-024 may be studies for engravings, based on Hodges' original sketches. However, they may also be copies of the engravings. This drawing faces the same way as the engraving, whereas Hodges' original chalk drawing (National Library of Australia, Joppien Smith no. 2.54) faces the opposite way, suggesting the engraver J. Hall worked directly from the drawing, finishing up with a portrait facing in the opposite direction. It appears to be an eighteenth century work Paper watermarked with a heraldic device Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: I Johnson. No. III, lower left. [Signature could be J. Johnson or F. Johnson] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Grey and brown wash 265 x 210 mm

Date: 1774 - 1800 - 1830

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

Reference: A-111-091

Description: Shows a double-hulled war canoe in the foreground, with a figure in a tall white-feathered headdress at the left end, and about fifteen men sitting on the boat's platform. In the right background are two other boats of the same design, flying small square sails tied to the high stern ends. Other Titles - Pare Bay Hodges made the original picture in May 1774 or later, on Cook's second voyage. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, image 100 x 176 mm, on sheet 148 x 222 mm

Date: 1855

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-548-013-2

Description: Shows Tahitian in top hat, European shirt and wrap-around skirt, walking jauntily with walking stick, past fence and trees. Other Titles - Tahiti Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Mutoi papeete; Recto - bottom left - H. Pottier / Taiti le ..7 ../ 1855[?] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink on paper 120 x 82 mm, stuck to page 215 x 273 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Hordern House Rare Books Pty Ltd., in 1996.