| LC control no. | n 77009504 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Omai |
| Variant(s) | Omiah Mai |
| Associated country | Society Islands (French Polynesia) England |
| Birth date | 1754~ |
| Death date | 1788 |
| Place of death | Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) |
| Found in | Alexander, M. Omai ... 1977 (subj.) t.p. (Omai) p. 214, etc. (Omiah) GB 77-16107 (Omai) BM (Omai) McCormick, E. H. Omai, 1977: p. 1 (b. ca. 1753) LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Omai, South Sea islander; usage: Omai) Oxford Companion to Black British History, accessed April 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Omai; celebrity; born c. 1754; travelled to England as a crew member during Captain Cook's second Pacific voyage, greeted by Lord Sandwich - First Lord of the Admiralty (1774); presented to George III and Queen Anne at Kew, went on a tour of Yorkshire (1775); appeared in memoirs of Samuel Johnson and Horace Walpole; Joshua Reynolds made a full-length painting of him (c.1775); returned to Otaheite with Cook (1776) during the third Pacific voyage; won the respect of Emperor Pomare I of the Society Islands; left by Cook at Huahine in a wooden house built by Spanish interlopers (1777); John O'Keefe wrote a play OMAI: A Trip Round the World performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden (1785); died 1788 in Tahiti) The warrior, the voyage, and the artist, 2020: page 133 (Mai was born in the middle of the eighteenth century, somewhere on RaŹ¹iatea) page 188 page (A pacific celebrity) 189 (Joshua Reynold's portrait of Mai, 1775) |
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