Description
Scarce engraving of two canoes on the one sheet, the one at top, a Tasmanian one made from bark and used by the aborigines to journey to offshore islands, to hunt for seasonally plentiful food such as mutton-birds and seals. other of a boy.
First published in, Jacques Julien Houton de Labillardiere (1755-1834), “Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Perouse” Homme du Cap de Diemen. This engraving is from the English edition.
From Labillardière, J., An Account of a Voyage in Search of La Pérouse, Undertaken by Order of the Constituent Assembly of France, and Performed in the Years 1791, 1792, and 1793, in the Recherche and Espérance, Ships of War, Under the Command of Rear-Admiral Bruni d’Entrecasteaux
