Tuamatuan Conception of the Cosmos - by Paiore - [inspiration for Margaret Mead]

"Tuamotuan Conception of the Cosmos", by Paiore (1820).

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This diagram first appeared in the writings of Rev. Pere Herve Audran, a missionary.
In December 1919, during the course of research on her Ph.D. dissertation, Margaret Mead saw this illustration in the Journal of the Polynesian Society. Later, in 1924, she resolved to do ethnological fieldwork in the remote Tuamotu islands of central Polynesia.

See Freeman (1991) “There’s Tricks I’ th’ World,” Visual Anthropology Review, Volume 7(1).