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Masked Rower Illustration

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This illustration is from one of the over 35,000 rare books at the Bishop Museum. The museum has one of the world's finest collections of works on Hawai‘i and the Pacific.

Canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the Rowers Masked.
Original painting by John Webber. Treasured for its rare view of early Hawaiian life.
Purchased: Spencer Bickerton, 1922
Plates from Voyage Account, Vol. III, Webber Engraving of Masked Rowers.

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