as priest and member of the upper cast of the tribe at Raiatea, Tahiti ; trained as assistant and draughtsman during expedition ;
Polynesia
navy officer ->James Cook's 1st voyage through the Pacific, taken aboard HMS Endeavour 1769ff. (initially as translator and navigator, soon also as assistant & draughtsman; 20 drawings are preserved) ;
his relative Taiata, who was also taken aboard HMS Endeavour ; British naval officer and explorer Samuel Wallis (1728-1795) ; Royal naval officer and explorer Samuel Wallis (1728-1795) ;
natural, zoological, and ethnological drawing and watercolour painting ;
Frings, Jutta (*1963) (ed.): James Cook und die Entdeckung der Südsee (München: Hirmer Verlag, 2009: 19, 25f., 112 & 188) ; Joan Druett: Tupaia - Captain Cook's Polynesian navigator (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2011) ;
Further information to education: trained in the fare-'ai-ra'a-'upu, or schools of learning, about the origin of the cosmos, genealogies, the calendar, proverbs and histories .
Further Places of Activity: Tahiti.
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