Australasia, Oceania & Pacific Islands Gallery

Whare Runanga - Wairoa, c.1865-70 (b/w photo)

495396 Whare Runanga - Wairoa, c.1865-70 (b/w photo) by Burton, Alfred (1834-1914); Private Collection; (add.info.: Wairoa is a town on New Zealand's North Island. A wharenui is a communal house of the MA?ori people of New Zealand, generally situated as the focal point of a marae - also called a whare runanga (meeting house) or whare whakairo (carved house); takitimu wharenui; Ngati Kahungunu; tribal house; ); New Zealander, out of copyright

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Australian Aborigine, a man called Cour-rou-bari-gal, from New Holland

468700 Australian Aborigine, a man called Cour-rou-bari-gal, from New Holland, 1812 (colour litho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Labelled Nouvelle-Hollande, or New Holland, an early name for Australia dating from the time of Dutch exploration of the continent. Illustration from naturalist Francois Peron (1775-1810)'s Voyage de dA©couvertes aux Terres Australes, or Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands'.Engraving by B Roger after N Petit, showing a man called Cour-rou-bari-gal, from New Holland, (now Australia). Published in Paris in 1815, it is an account of the French cartographic survey expedition to Australia, 1800-1804, led by Thomas Nicolas Baudin (1754-1803), on which Peron served as one of the scientific team); The Stapleton Collection; French, out of copyright

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Captain Cook's interview with natives in Adventure Bay, Van Diemen's Land

RNM286356 Captain Cook's interview with natives in Adventure Bay, Van Diemen's Land, 29th January 1777, c.1777 (pen & ink and grey wash on paper) by Webber, John (1750-93); National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK; (add.info.: Captain James Cook (1728-79) British explorer and navigator; Cook and the crew of HMS Resolution meeting a group of aborgines; unsure whether a sketch from the voyage or drawing worked up on the return to England in 1780;); A© National Museum of the Royal Navy; English, out of copyright

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