Details: WEBBER, John (1752-1793). A Woman of Oonalashka (Aleutian Islands). [Pl 49]. [London: G. Nicol & T. Cadell, 1784]. Etched and engraved by Delattre after a drawing by Webber. Full original sheet, uncut 17 x 22 3/4 inches.

John Webber, R.A. was born in London of Swiss parents. He was the draughtsman on Captain Cook's third and final voyage to the South Seas.

A portrait of a woman, head and shoulders directed to left, glancing towards the viewer, wearing a thick coat decorated with small quills and short strips of fur, a thin ribbon tied around her neck, with short hair cut in a straight fringe across the fringe and dressed up in a knot at her crown, two parallel horizontal lines intersected by short bars, tattoed across her cheek-bones, two rows of small beads running vertically from her septum to her chin, over her mouth and a winged bone ornament from her lower lip. Oonalashka (Unalaska) is the largest city of the Aleutian Islands

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