1787 Bankes Antique Print Island of Raiatea, French Polynesia Cooks Voyages 1769 Russia and police

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in which religious native rituals have been integrated with Christian celebrations

Date: 1755

made the first recorded European landing in the islands when he set foot on Rakahanga in 1606

1787 Bankes Antique Print Island of Raiatea, French Polynesia Cooks Voyages 1769 Russia and policeTitle : View of the new discoverd island of Ulietea, with some of its inhabitants, a double canoe, and other small craft, a boat house with the model of a double canoe, & c. Size: 14in x 9in (355mm x 230mm) Ref #: 21479 Date : 1787 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This fine original cooper plate engraved antique print of a view of the Island of Raiatea (Ulietea) during Captain Cooks 1st Voyage of discovery to the South Seas in 1769 was