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Date

[1823]

Artist

Daniel Tyerman (1773-1828)

Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image Link

https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23100585

Description

Shows a mission station, a long low building with a verandah, beneath lofty mountains. There are coconut palms and other trees around the building. In the middle distance, a man carries bunches of coconuts on both ends of a pole on his shoulder

Original watercolour for an engraving illustrating Bennet and Tyerman's Journal of voyages and travels ... London, Snow, 1831, Vol 2, facing p 50

The settlement named in Bennet and Tyerman as Bunaauia is now known as Punaauia

Rev Daniel Tyerman was with the London Missionary Society when acting as a missionary in the Society Islands in the early 1820s

Other Titles - Punaauia

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All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library

Location

Puna'auia, French Polynesia

Country

French Polynesia

Tags

Mountains
Huts

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

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