Afiatooka, or Morai in Tongataboo [i.e. Tongatabu] / Webber del. ; Cook sculp. – Historic Print
![Afiatooka, or Morai in Tongataboo [i.e. Tongatabu] / Webber del. ; Cook sculp., [between 1770 and 1800] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e2/e2f61af96d4b-L.webp)
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Afiatooka, or Morai in Tongataboo [i.e. Tongatabu] / Webber del. ; Cook sculp.
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Few plates in the voyage series show a Pacific ceremony as directly as this one, which depicts a gathering at a morai, or sacred enclosure, on Tongatapu, the largest island of the Tonga group. John Webber, the expedition artist who sailed on Cook's third voyage in the late 1770s, made the original drawing, and the engraving was prepared for the octavo edition of the voyage account. Plates like this shaped European understanding of Pacific peoples for decades, so the scene is best read as a European artist's record of what he saw, filtered through his own eye and the engraver's hand.
| Created / published | [between 1770 and 1800] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1770-1800.Engravings 1770-1800. |
| Notes | Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition. |
| Subjects | Cook, James,--1728-1779--Journeys--Tongatabu (Island) Polynesians--Tongatabu (Island)--1770-1800. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,287 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179101 |
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