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Description: Priests traveling across Kealakekua bay for first contact rituals. Each helmet is a gourd, with foliage and tapa strip decoration. A feather surrounded akua is in the arms of the priest at the center of the engraving. It is not known what the purpose of the ritual surrounding first contact with Westerners was. Creator: John Webber, artist with the Captain Cook expedition. Date: ca. 1800. Source: "Polynesia" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Priests_traveling_across_kealakekua_bay_for_first_contact_rituals.jpg/800px-Priests_traveling_across_kealakekua_bay_for_first_contact_rituals.jpg (accessed 21 November 2008). Originally published in Glen Grant, and Bennett Hymer, Hawai'i Looking Back : an Illustrated History of the Islands (Honolulu: Mutual Pub., 2000), 20. Permission: WikiMedia Commons License: This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.