'The Head of a Native of Otaheite, with the Face curiously tataow'd' Finish:Rolled A woman and a man

A woman and a man in military uniform stand beside the car

in the foreground and people gathered in the street

The record changed hands several times between Eyston and fellow Briton John Cobb in the late 1930s

George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley

'The Head of a Native of Otaheite, with the Face curiously tataow'd' Finish:Rolled A woman and a manTwo Tahitians, one with traditional tattoos and the other showing the characteristic facial expressions used in dancing and fighting, in which the Tahitians 'distort the muscles of their faces, and twist their mouths diagonally, in a manner which none of [the Endeavour's crew] could imitate.' Illustration from A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship, The Endeavour, by Sydney Parkinson (London, 1773), which was published