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| Keywords: Priests traveling across kealakekua bay for first contact rituals.jpg Priests traveling across Kealakekua bay for first contact rituals Each helmet is a gourd with foliage and tapa strip decoration A feather surrounded akua is in the arms of the priest at the center of the engraving It is not known what the purpose of the ritual surrounding first contact with Westerners was Artist John Webber artist aboard Cook's ship Source Scanned from page 20 of the following book ISBN 1-56647-347-0 http //www amazon com/gp/product/1566473470/sr 8-1/qid 1154230465/ref pd_bbs_1/002-5406020-2641665 ie UTF8 uploaded 07 08 30 July 2006 User Makthorpe PD-Art-100 scanned at 300dpi 1 3px sharpenned Makthorpe <gallery>File 'Canoe of the Sandwich Islands the Rowers Masked' by John Webber c 1778 jpg File A Canoe of the Sandwich Islands the Rowers Masked by John Webber jpg</gallery> DEFAULTSORT Webber Hawaii in prints Catamarans Works after John Webber James Cook Canoes with sail Gourds in art History of Hawaii Austronesian navigation Boats under sail Native Hawaiians in art Hawaii in the 1770s Kealakekua Bay Textiles of Hawaii Easter Island | ||||
