Caption:
[Whole drawing] New Zealanders fishing in Queen Charlotte Sound, with cylindrical fishing nets. Three of the natives in the central canoe, and one in the canoe on the right, are wearing the potae-taua [mourning cap] worn by widows, which are woven of rushes dyed black and decorated with black feathers. January 1770. A Collection of Drawings made in the Countries visited by Captain Cook in his First Voyage, 1768-1771. 1770. . Source: Add. 23920, f.44. Language: English.