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View of Point Venus and the tents, from anchoring place in Matavai Bay, Otakeite [Tahiti, Society Islands, Polynesian archipelago]

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Title: View of Point Venus and the tents, from anchoring place in Matavai Bay, Otakeite [Tahiti, Society Islands, Polynesian archipelago]
Creator: Humphries, W. (d.1799), artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1791 and 1795]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Beach with tents on shore; palm trees and other structures in distance.
Handwritten title (LC). Signature (LR): W. Humphreys. Handwritten (above title): Rocks and breakers; (LR): 45.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: watercolor and pencil 10.4 x 34 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5k4010n7
BANC PIC 1963.002:1142--ffALB
Subject: Camping
Expeditions & surveys
Oceania
Tahiti
Voyages to the Pacific

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