Baie Houa. Houa/Naturels executant une danse abord de L’Astrolabe.
Nouvelle Zelande. Paris: Tastu 1833.
Black & white lithograph view of Māori men and women on board the
Astrolabe performing a haka with a French officer at right, in 1827.
The scene was recorded in Tolaga Bay in the Gisborne Region.

Plate no. 48, from the official report of the voyage “Voyage de la
Corvette L’Astrolabe…”

360 x 530 mm [sheet size].

Condition:  Some foxing.