Mai (Ra'iatean man)
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Mai, also known as Omai in European countries, was a young Ra'iatean man who became the first Pacific Islander to visit Great Britain, and the second to visit European countries, after Ahutoru, who wa
Portrait of Omai, a South Sea Islander who travelled to Great Britain with the second expedition of Captain Cook – Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1776
Omai of the Friendly Isles by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c.1774
William Parry's painting Sir Joseph Banks with Omai and Dr Daniel Solander, circa 1775–76
Ahutoru
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Ahutoru was a Raiatean man, brother and adopted son of Ereti, the chief of the village where Louis Antoine de Bougainville anchored. He became the foremost intermediary between the Tahitians and the F
Mai (Ra'iatean man)
…countries, was a young Ra'iatean man who became the first Pacific Islander to visit Great Britain, and the second to visit European countries, after Ahutoru, who was brought to Paris by Bougainville in 1768. Mai, born c. 1751, described himself as a hoa, or 'attendant upon the king', the son of a Ra'iatea…
Ahutoru