1785 Fiatooka, or Burial Ground of Tongataboo
DESCRIPTION
A burial ground on Tongatapu appears in this excerpted plate from the French edition of the official account of Captain Cook's third voyage.
In it, thatched houses stand on a low grassy mound beneath tall palms and spreading trees while a man crosses the open ground in the foreground with a load slung from a pole across his shoulder. At left, two figures linger beside a thatched hut raised on posts. The caption reads "Fiatooka ou cimetière de l'isle de Tongataboo," or "Fiatooka, or burial ground of the island of Tongataboo."
Cook's Third Voyage
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage, aboard the Resolution and Discovery from 1776 to 1780, crossed the Pacific by way of Tonga and Tahiti before sailing north to the coast of northwest America, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands. Cook was killed in Hawaii in 1779, and his ships returned home under other commanders. The expedition's artist, John Webber, recorded the people, places, and objects they encountered, and his drawings were engraved for the official account published in London in 1784. A French translation followed in Paris in 1785, with its plates re-engraved under the direction of Robert Bénard.
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