Historical Images
Sailing canoe. Expedition of Captain James Cook, 1774
Warrior of the Te'i'i tribe of Taiohae Bay bearing war club and gourd canteen. Admiral Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenstern, Voyage Around the World in the Years 1803-1806
Trophy skull. Admiral Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenstern, Voyage Around the World in the Years 1803-1806
"An Inhabitant of the Island of Nuku Hiva." George von Langsdorff, Voyages and Travels in Various Parts of the World, 1813
War canoe. Sketch by Captain David Porter, Journal of a Cruise made to the Pacific Ocean in the United States frigate Essex, 1815
Paetini at Taiohae Bay, Nuku Hiva. Art staff of Admiral Dumont d'Urville, 1838
Ancestral skeletons at a clan temple on Fatu Hiva. Karl von den Steinen, The Marquesans and their Art, Vol 1, 1925