Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

Portrait of Ohedidee, a Young Man of Bolabola and Portrait of Otago, or Attago, a Chief at Amsterdam

Artist/Maker Artist Unknown (Artist Unknown)

Date1784-1786

Mediumengraving

DimensionsSheet: 9 3/4 x 14 3/8 in. (24.8 x 36.5 cm)

ClassificationsVisual Works

Credit LineGift of Drs. Ann and Robert Walzer

Terms

Object number2004.50.9.23

On View

Not on view

Collections

Art of Europe

DescriptionOhedidee (Hitihiti) was a young man from Bora Bora in the Society Islands who, from 1773-1774, traveled with Cook to New Zealand, Easter Island, Tahiti, and back to Raiatea where Cook had first met him. Along with Otago, the son of a chief from Amsterdam Island (Tongatapu), Hitihiti is depicted by Hogg in much the same manner as Potatau and Mai. Hodges sketched portraits of both men during the second voyage, but Hogg has only marginally distinguished between the two, endowing them with distinct hairstyles but otherwise presenting them as Polynesian male types with very similar facial features and costumes.