JOHN WEBBER. A morai in Atooi. A depiction of a burial place shows a small rock-strewn field surrounded by low stone walls. In the right foreground is a thatch longhouse or "mana". In the middle background is the tall open-work oracle tower or "lananu'u". There is a serrated post in the centre, and a platform supported by two poles. 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.73.
A morai in Atooi. A depiction of a burial place shows a small rock-strewn field surrounded by low stone walls. In the right foreground is a thatch longhouse or "mana". In the middle background is the tall open-work oracle tower or "lananu'u". There is a serrated post in the centre, and a platform supported by two poles. 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.73.