Priest of the Sandwich Isles, now Hawaii

Priest of the Sandwich Isles, now Hawaii. A bearded man in a red cloak, a crown of foliage, performing a ritual with a stick adorned with feathers. The high priest was known as Orono (Lono). Pretre des Isles de Sandwich. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792

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