File:Priests traveling across kealakekua bay for first contact rituals.jpg

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English: Priests traveling across Kealakekua bay for first contact rituals. Each helmet is a gourd, with foliage and tapa strip decoration. A feather surrounded akua is in the arms of the priest at the center of the engraving. It is not known what the purpose of the ritual surrounding first contact with Westerners was.

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uploaded 07:08, 30 July 2006

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Artist: John Webber, artist aboard Cook's ship.

Source: Scanned from page 20 of the following book.

Grant, Glenn (2004) Hawai`i Looking Back: An illustrated History of the Islands, Mutual Publishing, pp. 454pp

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User:Makthorpe

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