Woman dancer performing an Ariai, Tahiti. She wears a bodice revealing the breast, a large frill at the waist tied with feather ropes over a full skirt. After an illustration by John Webber for James Cook's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Danseur de Taiti. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792.

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