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John Webber: Polynesian Dance, Ceremony and Human Sacrifice
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John Webber: Polynesian Dance, Ceremony and Human Sacrifice

An artist and cultural explorer on Captain Cook’s third voyage

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Human sacrifice at the great morai at Attahouroo [Utuaimahurau],Tahiti, witnessed by Captain Cook on 1 September 1777, watercolor on paper by John Webber 

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