IDNO

LS.78969.NKC

Description

Etching depicting two women dancing and two men kneeling before a house-like structure and a large crowd of people in the background. [Mark Elliott 27/01/04]

Etching of "A Dance in Otaheite (before title)' from the Voyages of Captain Cook. [JD 26/06/2019]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; French Polynesia; Society Islands; Tahiti

Cultural Affliation

Tahitian; Arioi

Named Person

Photographer

After Hodges, William [Artist]; Woollett, William [Engraver]; Cadell,Thomas [Publisher]

Collector / Expedition

Chadwick, Nora Kershaw

Date

1777

Collection Name

Chadwick Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

LS.78959.NKC to LS.79001.NKC were found in wooden box now numbered C377/.

The list describing individual slides is pasted to the inside lid of the box C377/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Mark Elliott 27/01/04].