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Antique Print of Alaska Costumes by Cook, 1803
£210
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Original print, not a reproduction.
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- Date
- 1803
- Sheet size
- 11 × 16.1 in (28 × 41 cm)
- Condition
- Good. General age-related toning and some wear. Please study images carefully.
- Wardrobe
- Far & away
- Era
- 1790 to 1840, Empire and Romantic
- Stock no.
- f_13427641
Two hats of the inhabitants of Unalaska, a copper engraving from the Dutch edition of Captain Cook's voyages, "Reizen rondom de Waereld," translated by J. D. Pasteur and published by Honkoop, Allart and Van Cleef, 1803. The plate is lettered in Dutch "Hoeden der Inwoners van Oonalashka," with a plate number at the upper right.
The sheet shows two pieces of headwear drawn to the same scale on a plain ground, framed by a ruled border. At the upper right, a broad flat disk with a fringed edge, a radiating pattern of bands and three feathers hanging from a cord. At the lower left, a pointed visor-like cap with a decorated pattern of fine lines and a fringed rim, with leather ties hanging down.
Cook's third voyage called at Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands in 1778, and the voyage accounts illustrated the dress, tools and dwellings of the people encountered there. Plates of objects like these, engraved after drawings by the expedition's artists, gave European readers some of their first detailed views of the material culture of the North Pacific.
