The first two figures...are chisels or gouges; the third an adze...the fourth, the instrument with which bread fruit is beaten...the fifth, the nasal flute; the sixth, a thatching needle; the seventh, the instrument used for beating the cloth...

This is an engraving of the various types of instruments used by the inhabitants of New Zealand. It was done by Syndey Parkinson in 1770. Parkinson was a Scottish botanist and natural history artist employed by Joseph Banks on Captain James Cook's first Endeavor voyage to the Pacific from 1768-1771. The drawing was then engraved in John Hawkesworth's Voyages (an account of the journeys by Captain Cook, Vice Admiral John Byron, and Joseph Banks published on behalf of the Admirality in 1773). Captain Cook (1728-1779) made three separate voyages to the Pacific (with the ships Endeavour, Resolution, Adventure, and Discovery) and did more than any other voyager to explore the Pacific and Southern Ocean. Cook not only encountered Pacific cultures for the first time, but also assembled the first large-scale collections of Pacific objects to be brought back to Europe. He was killed in Hawaii in 1779.

Mounted on page with PAI3987, and in album with PAI3938-PAI3985, PAI3987-PAI4076.; Page 43.; Typewritten title stuck below image.; Plate No.9.

Object Details

ID: PAI3986
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Parkinson, Sydney; Record, James
Date made: 1770
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 227 x 192 mm
Parts: Atlas to Cook's Voyages Vol I 1773-1777. (Illustrations are from Hawkesworth's 'Voyages to the Southern Hemisphere', all volumes, and Cook [ed. Douglas] 'A Voyage towards the South Pole... ' [1773-75], page 70 onwards) (Album)