Massacre of John Williams, engraving, Museum of
Massacre of the missionaries Reverend John Williams, 1796-1839, and James Harris, at Erromango, Vanuatu, when they were attacked and eaten by cannibals in 1839, coloured engraving, 1841, by George Baxter, 1804-67, in the Musee de Tahiti et des Iles, or Te Fare Manaha, at Punaauia, on the island of Tahiti, in the Windward Islands, Society Islands, French Polynesia. The Museum of Tahiti and the Islands was opened in 1974 and displays collections of nature and anthropology, habitations and artefacts, social and religious life and the history of French Polynesia. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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