The Lad Taiyota, Native of Otaheite, in the Dress of his Country (colored), Richard Bernard Godfrey

Plate 9. From the book: a journal of a voyage to the south seas, in his majesty's ship the endeavour tupaia took taiata, a servant-boy, with him on hms endeavour. Taiata’s experiences were described in the officers’ journals only occasionally, but this engraving of him has survived, based on a lost sketch by sydney parkinson. Taiata died on 17 december 1770, three days before tupaia. Date: circa 1769-1770; published after 1784.