The body of Tee, a chief, preserved after death in Otaheite. Tahiti. BANKES 1789

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The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death in Otaheite. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Unsigned. Provenance: "A New Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography", by Thomas Bankes, Edward Warren Blake, Alexander Cook & Thomas Bowen, printed for C. Cooke, No. 17, Pater-Noster Row (1789). Type: Antique copperplate print.

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Size: 2303px × 1774px
Location: Polynesia
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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