Evidence: | 'The men in these boats were dressed much as they are represented in Tasman's figure, that is, two corners of the cloth they wore were passed over their shoulders and fastened to the rest of it just below their breasts; but few or none had feathers in their hair.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | 15 Jan 1770 | ||||||||||
Country: | New Zealand | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | specific address: Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand other location: Onboard HMS Endeavour |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Joseph Banks |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 13 Feb 1743 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Naturalist |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | New Zealand |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Abel Jansen Tasman |
Title: | [unknown] |
Genre: | Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 9932 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Banks | |
Editor: | Joseph Hooker | |
Title: | Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., KB PRS During Captain Cook's first Voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies etc. | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1896 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 210 | |
Additional comments: | Publisher MacMillan & Co. Ltd. |
Citation: | Joseph Banks, Joseph Hooker (ed.), Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., KB PRS During Captain Cook's first Voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies etc. (London, 1896), p. 210, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9932, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Date of birth stated to be 2 February 1743 (o.s.) in book, this has been corrected to new style date. I have been unable to identify the title of the book. http://history-nz.org/discovery1.html gives a quote from something that gives the description but does not say where the quote comes from. |
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