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JOHN WEBBER. A woman of Oonalashka. Drawn from nature by J. Webber, and engraved by Jean-Marie Delatre. Drawing of the head and shoulders of a woman looking three-quarters left. She is wearing a close-fitting seal-skin coat from the seams of which hang pendant beads. Her hair is tied in a knot at the back of the head, and worn as a fringe across the forehead. There are tattoo lines across both cheeks, and nose and chin ornaments. The lower lip is perforated. A collection of drawings by A. Buchan, S. Parkinson, and J. F. Miller, made in the Countries visited by Captain James Cook in his First Voyage [1768-1771], also of prints published in John Hawksworth's Voyages of Biron [Byron], Wallis, and Cook [1773], as well as in Cook's second and third Voyages [1772-1775, 1776-1780]. 1768-1780. Source: Add.23921 f.96.

JOHN WEBBER. A woman of Oonalashka. Drawn from nature by J. Webber, and engraved by Jean-Marie Delatre. Drawing of the head and shoulders of a woman looking three-quarters left. She is wearing a close-fitting seal-skin coat from the seams of which hang pendant beads. Her hair is tied in a knot at the back of the head, and worn as a fringe across the forehead. There are tattoo lines across both cheeks, and nose and chin ornaments. The lower lip is perforated. A collection of drawings by A. Buchan, S. Parkinson, and J. F. Miller, made in the Countries visited by Captain James Cook in his First Voyage [1768-1771], also of prints published in John Hawksworth's Voyages of Biron [Byron], Wallis, and Cook [1773], as well as in Cook's second and third Voyages [1772-1775, 1776-1780]. 1768-1780. Source: Add.23921 f.96.
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A woman of Oonalashka. Drawn from nature by J. Webber, and engraved by Jean-Marie Delatre. Drawing of the head and shoulders of a woman looking three-quarters left. She is wearing a close-fitting seal-skin coat from the seams of which hang pendant beads. Her hair is tied in a knot at the back of the head, and worn as a fringe across the forehead. There are tattoo lines across both cheeks, and nose and chin ornaments. The lower lip is perforated. A collection of drawings by A. Buchan, S. Parkinson, and J. F. Miller, made in the Countries visited by Captain James Cook in his First Voyage [1768-1771], also of prints published in John Hawksworth's Voyages of Biron [Byron], Wallis, and Cook [1773], as well as in Cook's second and third Voyages [1772-1775, 1776-1780]. 1768-1780. Source: Add.23921 f.96.
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