EditorialMaleka, a native woman of Hawaii, in gold turban and white blouse. Malayan Race. Handcoloured steel engraving by Hinchliff after an illustration by Alfred Agate from Charles Pickering's The Races of Man, London, 1850.
EditorialMorai or sacred cemetery on Kauai, Hawaii (Atooi). Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Bernieri after John Webber from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844.
EditorialInterior of a Morai or sacred cemetery on Kauai, Hawaii (Atooi). Interior of a long house or mana in the heiau (morai) at Waimea with carved representations of the gods. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Bernieri after John Webber from Giulio Ferrar...
EditorialNaked tattooed man of Hawaii (Sandwich Islands) dancing for Captain James Cook, 1778. He holds a feathered shield and has dog's teeth leggings tied at the knee. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso after John Webber from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient...
EditorialDavid Malo, historian and Christian minister, native of Hawaii, in western dress. Malayan Race. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Alfred Agate from Charles Pickering's The Races of Man, London, 1850.
EditorialKamehameha I, King of Hawaii (as Tammeamea I, King of the Sandwich Islands), and Naba Leba, Queen of Solor (Indonesia). Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals, 1836.
EditorialBlack-headed bulbul, Pycnonotus atriceps (Black-headed shrike, Lanius melanocephalus). Native of Hawaii according to Latham, Australia according to Shaw. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds...
EditorialKamehameha I (1758-1819). King of Hawaii Island. Hawaiians, 1819. Kamehameha and his warriors. Engraving by E. Bayard. The Illustrated World, 1880. Colored.
EditorialNatives of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), 19th century. Copied from Louis Choris' "Voyage Pittoresque." Handcoloured lithograph by J. Bull from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855.
EditorialKamehameha I (1758-1819). King of Hawaii Island. Hawaiians, 1819. Kamehameha and his warriors. Engraving by E. Bayard. The Illustrated World, 1880.
EditorialBurial grounds on Hawaii (Sandwich Islands). Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the Ger...
EditorialTattooed woman dancer from the island of Movi (Maui, Hawaii) and man in headdress and skirt from the Freindly islands (Tonga). Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Ga...
EditorialChiefs of the Sandwich islands (Hawaii): Kiaimoukou surnamed Cox, Chief of Maui Island (center), a tattooed chief of Oahu Island (left) and officer to Kiaimoukou (right). Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkerga...
EditorialHouse of the first minister to the king, Sandwich Island (Hawaii), with guard and woman making various materials. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peop...
EditorialAn officer of King Liholiho (Kamehameha II) of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) in full dress with helmet, spear and cape over tattooed body, and dancer with shield. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie i...
Editorial'The Shell', 1650. The shell is a Conus marmoreus, which is native to south-east Africa, Polynesia and Hawaii. The shell's striking pattern, with the tight spiral of its base, has been captured in great detail. PD, 1868-8-22-672 (Hind 248, Bartsch 159).
EditorialGold medal of Captain James Cook. Chosen as captain of the "Endeavour" by the Royal Society, he found and chartered New Zealand and the East Coast of Australia. In two more voyages, Cook discovered several islands in the Pacific, but was murdered by th...