A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship, the Endeavour is a 1773 book based on the papers of Sydney Parkinson, who accompanied Joseph Banks as botanical illustrator on the first
Sydney Parkinson, engraving by James Newton, frontispiece of the book
The Head of a Chief of New Zealand, the face curiously tattaowd, or mark'd, according to their Manner. 1773 engraving by T. Chambers based on a 1769 drawing by Parkinson, depicting a Māori man with moko.
Two of the Natives of New Holland, Advancing to Combat. Engraving by Thomas Chambers after Parkinson, 1773.
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Tā moko is the permanent marking or tattooing as customarily practised by Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. It is one of the five main Polynesian tattoo styles.
A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas
…curiously tattaowd, or mark'd, according to their Manner. 1773 engraving by T. Chambers based on a 1769 drawing by Parkinson, depicting a Māori man with moko. The book is structured roughly chronologically and broken up in three main parts: the first describes the voyage from England to Tahiti and contains…
"Portrait of a young Maori woman with moko", by Louis John Steele (1891)
Portrait of Tāmati Wāka Nene by Gottfried Lindauer (1890)
Painting by Gottfried Lindauer of a moko being carved into a man's face by a tohunga-tā-moko (tattooist)