1785 Hats of the Natives of Unalaska
DESCRIPTION
Two woven hats from Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands appear in this excerpted plate from the French edition of the official account of Captain Cook's third voyage.
In it, a tall conical cap of closely woven bands, edged with a fringe and tied with cords, sits at lower left. At upper right, a broad round hat with a shaggy fringed brim trails a cord hung with feathers. The caption reads "Chapeaux des naturels d'Oonalashka," or "Hats of the natives of Unalaska."
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.
CONDITION
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