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Captain James Cook, 1728-79, British explorer, attending a human sacrifice at Otaheiti on the island of Tahiti, in the Windward Islands, French Polynesia, in 1777, detail of an engraving after John Webber, 1751-93. John Webber accompanied Captain Cook on his 3rd Pacific expedition. In times of war or famine, a man would sometimes be sacrificed to the gods. He would be killed with a club or by stoning and attached to a pole while the priest (sitting here at his feet) recited incantations, then the body buried in a pit in the ground. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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AR9641309
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7087px × 2815px
Photo Credit
Manuel Cohen / Art Resource, NY
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1777
18th century
ART
B&W
Black and white
CAPTAIN COOK
Ceremony
Death
Engraving
Expedition
Exploration
Explorer
FINE ARTS
FRENCH POLYNESIA
HORIZONTAL
human sacrifice
INDOORS
INSIDE
interior
Island
JAMES COOK
Oceania
Pacific Ocean
Polynesia
Priest
Ritual
Sacrifice
SACRIFICIAL
tahiti
TRADITION
Travel
Windward Islands