[Tools etc from the South Sea Isles]

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Rare engraving from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s first voyage. All other later copies made of this image by other publishers were unauthorised, usually smaller and inferior in quality. Implements of the Society Islands. Shown are an adze and tattooing tools.

‘The Figure, reckoning from the left hand, is an adze of the larger size, the second and third are different representations of the upper part of it…the third are different representations of the upper part of it…the smaller figures are tattowing instruments…the last is the instrument with they struck,’ Hawkesworth II,p.191

Reference: Joppien 1.98A ill.p.160

From Hawkesworth,  An Account of the Voyages Undertaken By the Order of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere.