119 FIG. 1 (left): Quotation from the letter of Pomare II to the directors of the London Missionary Society that accompanied Temeharo and other Tahitian idols to London in 1816. From Missionary Sketches 3, October 1818. FIG. 4 (right): Cover of Missionary Sketches 3, October 1818, second edition, printed August 1820. CWM Archives, SOAS. This engraving depicts ten of the idols that Pomare II of Tahiti presented to London Missionary Society missionaries on Mo‘orea in 1816, about ten years after his renunciation of idolatry. Pomare asked the missionaries to send the idols to London so that Europeans could see for themselves “Tahiti’s foolish gods.” Temeharo is the large object at center.
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