Queen Pomare, engraving, Museum of Tahiti and

Pomare, Queen of Tahiti, the persecuted Christian surrounded by her family at the afflictive moment when the French forces were landing, detail of an aquatint engraving, 1845, 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. Pomade is depicted as anglicised, wearing Western clothes and resembling a Madonna and child with her baby in her arms, to appeal to Victorians in Britain. 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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13438924

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45137551

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4724px x 7087px (9.5MB)

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Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

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Photograph by Manuel Cohen