[Hawaii] Îles Sandwich: Maison de Kraïmokou, Premier Ministre du Roi; Fabrication des Étoffes.
A. Pellion delin.t. Villeroy sculp.t. [Paris, 1822-4.] Stipple. 235 x 320mm (9¼ x 12½"), with large margins. Some spotting in margins. Kalanimoku, the chief minister of the king of Hawaii, standing in the doorway of a hut, standing over his wife Likelike, who is beating a sheet of kapa, fabric made of plant fibre. Bottom left is an 'olo', the largest of the native surfboards, a size reserved for the royal class. A plate from the official account of Louis-Claude de Freycinet's circumnavigation, 'Voyage Autour Du Monde fait par ordre du roi sur les corvettes de S.M l'Uranie et la Physicienne pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820'.
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