Sources of Illustrations

Scans of the originals were received from the Macmillan Brown Library (MBL); scans or photographs of originals or published reproductions of engravings or published photographs were framed and made by the author (ST), from books located in ANU libraries and, in the Dumont d’Urville case, in the National Library of Australia (NLA).

SAMOA:

1. Portrait of Lapérouse: from a set of portraits in vol. 1 of J.S.C. Dumont D’Urville, Voyage pittoresque autour du monde: résumé général des voyages de découvertes de Magellan, Tasman, Dampier..., publié sous la direction de M. Dumont d’Urville, Paris, Tenré, 1834-35, vol. 1 (scan Macmillan Brown Library-MBL).

2.&4. ‘Überfall der Samoaner auf die Expedition Laperouses in Tutuila, 1787. Nach einem alten Stich’ and ‘Cooks Ermorbung in Hawaii, 1779. Nach einem alten Stich’: Erich Schultz-Ewerth, Errinerungen an Samoa, A. Ocherl, Berlin, 1926, pp. 40-41 (scan Serge Tcherkézoff-ST). The original was drawn by N. Ozanne and engraved by N.B. Déquevauviller in Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1797: Atlas, plate no. 66.

3. ‘Denkmal in der Massacre-Bay (Tutuila)’: F. Reinecke, Samoa, Berlin, W. Süsserott, 1902, p. 29 (scan ST)

5. ‘Stilleben’: Reinecke, op. cit., p. 217 (scan ST).

6. ‘Cases de naturels à Apia, Ile Opoulou’: drawn by Goupil, lithograph by P. Blanchard, in J.S.C. Dumont d’Urville, Voyage au Pôle sud et dans l’Océanie, Paris, Gide, 1846: vol ‘Atlas pittoresque’: pl. 72 (photograph ST with NLA permission, call number: Pict. Section, NL shelves 593, P593, PIC S11207).

7. ‘Grande place d’Apia, Ile Opoulou’: drawn by Lebreton, lithograph by E. Ciceri, in ibid., pl. 81 (ph. Idem, PIC S11216).

8. ‘Chef d’Apia, Ile Opoulou’, ‘Jeune fille d’Apia, Ile Opoulou’: drawn by Goupil, lithograph by Bayot, in ibid., pl. 84 (ph. idem, PIC S11219); ‘Peha, chef du district d’Opoulou’, in ibid. (ph. idem).

9. ‘Intérieur de la maison publique d’Apia, Ile Opoulou’: drawn by Goupil, lithograph by P. Blanchard, in ibid., pl. 71 (ph. idem, PIC S11206).

10. ‘Huttennbau’: Erich Scheurmann, Samoa: ein Bilderwerk Herausgegeben und Eingeleited von, Konstanz, Erschienen im See Vlg., 1927, pl. 46 (scan ST).

11. ‘Hütteninneres’: Scheurmann, op. cit., pl. 45 (scan ST).

12. ‘Tanz einer Dorfjungfrau mit Gefolge’: Scheurmann, op. cit., pl. 97 (scan ST).

13. ‘Stehtanz einer Dorfjungfrau, von sitzenden Männern begleitet’: Augustin Krämer, Die Samoa Inseln, Stuttgart, 1902-03, vol. 2, p. 235 (scan ST).

14. ‘Junge Häuptlingstochter (taupou) bei der Kawa’: Krämer, op. cit., vol. 1, p. 19 (scan ST).

15. ‘Dorfjungfrauen’: Scheurmann, op. cit., pl. 94 (scan ST).

16. ‘Samoanerin mit schlitzförmigen Augen im Kopfschmuch (tuiga) mit doppeltem Stirnband aus Nautilus-Schalen (fuiono), Halsschmuch aus Pottwalzähnen (‘ulalei) und Bruskette aus Pandanus-Bohnen und Cananga-Blüten’: Krämer, op. cit., vol. 2, p. 276 (scan ST).

17. ‘Der Sprecherhäuptling Moefa’auō von Lufilufi’: Krämer, op. cit., vol. 1, p. 273 (scan ST).

18. ‘Samoanischer Krieger’: Scheurmann, op. cit., pl. 84 (scan ST).

19. ‘Häuptlinge in Tapamatten’: Scheurmann, op. cit., pl. 48 (scan ST).

TAHITI:

20. & 21. Extracted from a set of portraits in vol. 1 of Dumont D’Urville, Voyage pittoresque… (scan MBL).

22. ‘Amusements of the Otahitians and the Bristish’: engraved for the frontispiece of vol. 8 of Jean Pierre Bérenger, Collections de tous les voyages faits autour du monde par les différentes nations de l’Europe, Lausanne, Heubach, 1788-89 (scan NLA).

23. ‘Captn Wallis … in conversation with Queen Oberea … a favourite Dance called the Timorodee’: engraved for John Hamilton Moore, A new and complete collection of voyages and travels, containing all that have been remarkable from the earliest period to the present time, comprehending an extensive system of geography, describing, in the most accurate manner, every place worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, Londres, Alexander Hogg (n.d., probably 1780), vol. 2, facing p. 158 (scan MBL). (This name ‘timorodee’ was mentioned in the Cook Voyages accounts and came to represent the Tahitian supposed-to-be inclination to ‘lascivious’ dancing; see Tcherkézoff in press-1).

24. ‘… in the Island of Ulietea, with the representation of a dance…’: engraved for the official narrative (arranged by J. Hawkesworth) of the voyages of Byron, Carteret, Wallis and Cook (1st voyage), London, 1773, p. 265 (scan MBL).

25. ‘O-Tai, his wife and sisters visiting Capt. Cook on board the Resolution Sloop at O-Taheitee’: engraved for Moore, op. cit., vol. 2, facing p. 1129 (scan MBL).

26. ‘A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present’: drawing by John Webber (1777); from the reproduction in Rüdiger Joppien and Bernard Smith, The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages (4 vols), Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1987, vol. 1 p. 59 (scan ST).

27. Drawing (no caption) of Sydney Parkinson (1st Cook Voyage, 1769); from D. Oliver, Ancient Tahitian Society, Canberra, ANU Press, 1974, pp. 333-4 (scan ST).

28. ‘A dance at Otaheite’: following faithfully a drawing by John Webber (3rd Cook Voyage, 1777), engraved for Moore, op. cit., vol. 1 (scan MBL) .