Keywords: A Canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the Rowers Masked by John Webber.jpg 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 http //www davidrumsey com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~24192~880022 A-canoe-of-the-Sandwich-Islands -th sort Pub_List_No_InitialSort 2CPub_Date qvq w4s /where/Kealakekua+Bay+ Hawaii ;q 2BPub_List_No 3D'3405 000 2B' 22 2B;sort Pub_List_No_InitialSort 2CPub_Date;lc RUMSEY~8~1 mi 6 trs 10 drawn 1779 published 1784 creator John Webber PD-old-100 <gallery> File Priests traveling across kealakekua bay for first contact rituals jpg File 'Canoe of the Sandwich Islands the Rowers Masked' by John Webber c 1778 jpg</gallery> DEFAULTSORT Webber Hawaii in prints Catamarans Works after John Webber James Cook Canoes with sail Gourds in art History of Hawaii Austronesian navigation Boats under sail Native Hawaiians in art Hawaii in the 1770s Kealakekua Bay Textiles of Hawaii |