Vue de l'intérieur d'une Maison dans l'Isle d'Uliétea. Representation d'une danse à la mode du pays. (View of the interior of a house on the island of Uliétea. Representation of a dance in the custom of the country.)

Unknown (artist nationality)
engraver (artist role)
Recto: u. r.: (within plate impression) Tome III . Pl. 6 . ; l. l.: (just beneath image) Palas Sculp : ; bottom center: (in French) Vue de l'intérieur d'une Maison dans l'Isle d'Uliétea. Representation d'une danse à la mode du pays. ; l. r.: (in pencil) No. 20 ; verso: u. r.: (in pencil) Clark / 3 00 ; l. r.: (in pencil) Extrait du Voyage de Byron Carteret Wallis et Cook / dans l'Hémisphere Méridional 1774 ; l. r.: (in pencil) No 20 ; l. l.: (in pencil) C575/622 (inscription)
Etching. (medium)
Good condition. Small losses at left and center of bottom edge. Perimeter of sheet slightly "browned" probably from natural wear. (condition)
The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, California, 18 Mar. 1937. (provenance)
Nose flute, Pahu? (Drum) (instrument)
Cook, James, 1728-1779; Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773 (related names)
18th century (century)
Mythological, etc. (miller category)

The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.