Outrigger Collection

Hawaiians in the mid-1800s
Diamond Head and Waikiki in the Hawaiian Islands, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Papua, New Guinea, native village
Native village on Humboldt Bay, Papua, New Guinea, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Sailing ships in the Spice Islands
Volcano on Tidore in the Moluccas, seen from the neighboring island of Ternate, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Mariana Islands in the Pacific discovered by Magellan, 1521
The Ladrones, later called the Marianas, and a native outrigger drawn by Pigafetta on the Magellan expedition, 1521. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 16th-century illustration

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Outrigger canoes at a native village in the Nicobar Islands, Bay of Bengal, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19-century illustration

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Captain James Cook, discoverer of the Sandwich Islands, with his ships in Kealakekua Bay, where he was killed by natives in 1779. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a painting

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