Captain Cook's First Voyage 1768-1771
"A view in the island of Otaheite; with the house … called Tupapow, under which the dead are deposited, and… the person who performs the principal part of the ceremony… ; with a man climbing the bread-fruit tree to get out of his way."
View of the island of Otaheite (full image) from An Account of the Voyages ... in the Southern Hemisphere ... by Captain Cook. Edited by John Hawkesworth. London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773.
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