Rapa Collection

Outrigger canoe of Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Illustration by Blondela from Jean Francois Laperouses Voyage. Copperplate engraving by Dell Acqua handcoloured Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzognos

Native woman of Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824

Moai on Easter Island
Monuments on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Artist Gaspard Duche de Vancy sketching a Moai while a native steals his hat. From Jean Francois Laperouses Voyage

Native man of Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824

Turnips, Brassica rapa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Spiked rampion, Phyteuma spicatum, skirret, Sium sisarum, and turnip, Brassica rapa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt

Fodder beet, Beta vulgaris var. rapa. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Chiragra spider conch, scallop, whelk, sea snail, etc
Various mollusc shells: Chiragra spider conch, Harpago chiragra 1, scallops, Pecten species 2-5, whelk, Buccinum undatum 6, Lagena species 7, sea snail, Rapa rapa 8, de ajuinschil shell 9

Polish canola or canola oil plant, Brassica rapa, Brassica campestris, Colza. Handcoloured steel engraving by L. Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A

Captain James Cook examining the Moai statues
Captain James Cook and natives examining the Moai statues on Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Natives of Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Man and woman in hats with long pierced ear lobes. Couple rowing an outrigger canoe or vaka

Curtis British Entomology Plate 617
Hymenoptera: Athalia spinarum = Athalia rosae (Turnep Saw-fly) [Plant: Brassica rapa (Turnip)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 336
Lepidoptera: Arcturus sparshalli = Trichioceras sparshalli (Arctiidae: Long-tailed Bombyx). Not British ? specimen from Mr. Sparshall [Plant: Brassica rapa ssp

Grumman TBF-1C Avenger NZ2504
(ex Royal New Zealand Air Force) - Grumman TBF-1C Avenger NZ2504 (msn 5219, ex INST182, ex BuNo 24336), on gate guard at RNZAF Te Rapa, near Hamilton

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14 th century. Medieval handbook of heal
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Man offering turnips. Miniature. Fol. 51 r

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Man gathering turnips. Woman cleaning turnips in a river. Miniature. Fol. 52 r

Hoa Hakananai a. Easter Island
Hoa Hakananai a. Human figure (moai). Basalt. 1000-1200. Easter Island. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Root vegetables, carrot Daucus carota and turnip Brassica rapa.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures on Botany

CHILE. VALPARAISO. Ahu Tongariki. Easter Island. Rapa Nui National Park. Moais

CHILE. VALPARAISO. Ahu Tahai. Easter Island. Rapa Nui National Park. Moais

CHILE. VALPARAISO. Rano Raraku. Easter Island. Rapa Nui National Park. Moais

CHILE. VALPARAISO. Ahu Ko Te Riku. Easter Island. Rapa Nui National Park. Moai with itd stone hat and coral eyes

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