Robert Benard (after Sydney Parkinson)

Maniere don’t on expose les morts a Otahiti (How the dead are exposed on Tahiti)

This fine original copper-plate engraved antique print of how the Dead are left mummified
outdoors in an elevated platform in Tahiti, and the ritual of the Spirit of the Dead Watching
(Manao tupapau), visited by Captain Cook in HMS Endeavor during his first visit to the
Island in 1769, was engraved by Robert Benard – after Sydney Parkinson – was published
in the 1774 French edition of John Hawkesworths

Image size:  360mm  X  230mm

Condition:  Good