A tupapow (tupapau), or burial shed Size:M: 75 x 50cm Five of the figures have

Five of the figures have been cut into the main page as windows or insets

Interior view of the church looking west

during the reign of Mary I in the 16th century

in each hand he holds a goose by the neck

'Coastal Scene'

A tupapow (tupapau), or burial shed Size:M: 75 x 50cm Five of the figures haveA tupapow (tupapau), or burial shed, and a Tahitian priest, observed by Lieutenant James Cook and the crew of the Endeavour, Tahiti, 1769. In the tupapow, 'posts are set up to support the bier And here the body remains to putrify till the flesh is wholly wasted from the bones.' Illustration from An account of the voyages for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, by John Hawkesworth (London, 1773). Original: engraving. 1773