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John Webber (engr. J. Hall), A Young Woman of the Sandwich Islands, Polaho, King of the Friendly Islands, Young Tahitian Woman bearing gifts, Society Islands (Captain Cook's Voyages), London, c. 1784.

Possession Bay off the Island of South Georgia [Vol. 2, Plate XXXIV]; Christmas Sound, Tierra del Fuego, Tuesday, January 17th 1775.

Tete d'un Guerrier de la Nouvelle Zelande (Native Maori warrior from the Island of Aotearoa), Paris, 1774.

Kahuna priests surrounded by his contingency travels across Kealakekua bay to during first contact rituals. Each helmet is a gourd, with foliage and tapa strip decorations. Kahuna Nui (at center), wears the traditional Hawai'ian feather adorned Akua. John Webber (artist), aboard Captain James Cook's ship, c. 1778.

James Cook /Act II: The Second Voyage (1728–1779); 'A Chart of the Southern Hemisphere' [Copperplate Map / From: Vol. 1 of "A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World"), London, 1777. [Historic Maps Collection].

This engraving above is by John Webber; the artist who was assigned to accompany James Cook’s third expedition to explore the Pacific. Webber was the first European artist to document the appearance and culture of the Mowachaht people who occupied Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The Mowachaht were part of a larger group of linguistically related tribes called the Nuu-Chah-Nulth, a people who have been historically referred to as the Nootka. (1778)