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Stock# 96760
Description
First Image of a Surfboard
Important early view of Captain Cook's anchorage at Karakakooa Bay.
Shows dozens of Native Hawaiian canoes and sail boats going out from a coastal village. The view is also noteworthy in that it is the earliest printed image to include an image of a surfboard (foreground, between the two outriggers).
From an English edition of Cook's account of his 3rd Voyage. The scene was originally sketched by John Webber, a talented young artist who accompanied Capt. James Cook on his third voyage to the Pacific in 1776-1780.
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