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Artist unknown :[Plan showing the structure of an observatory tent. 1769 or early 1770s?]

Grand Hotel, Tahiti

Tropique Hotel, Tahiti, showing the lagoon, huts and palm trees

Tropique Hotel, Tahiti, shows an unidentified couple walking around the grounds surrounded by trees

TEAL (Tasman Empire Airways Limited), Tahiti flight

Tourists and local woman attending a ceremony feast, Tahiti

Unidentified local woman, possibly Augustine, performs the hula at a ceremony feast, Tahiti

Top floor of Grand Hotel, Tahiti, showing palm leaves laid on outdoor floor

Interior view from Grand Hotel, Tahiti, looking out to the lagoon

Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :[Portraits of two Tahitians. 1777]

The Harpley leaving Othaheite on the 12th September 1847

Burial place of the Otaheitans. Otaheitan pah destroyed by the French