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English: Priests traveling across Kealakekua bay for first contact rituals. Each helmet is a gourd, with foliage and tapa strip decoration. A feather surrounded akua is in the arms of the priest at the center of the engraving. It is not known what the purpose of the ritual surrounding first contact with Westerners was.
Date drawn 1779, published 1784
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John Webber  (–1793)  wikidata:Q323505
 
John Webber
Alternative names
Johann Wãber; Johann Wäber; R.A. Webber; Weeber; Webber; R. A. Webber
Description British explorer, painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 6 October 1751 / 1752 Edit this at Wikidata 29 April 1793 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
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London; Bern; Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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