{"product_id":"pomare-v-1839-1891-last-king-of-tahiti","title":"PŌMARE V (1839–1891), Last King of Tahiti. Original Autograph Note Signed (\"Pomare V\"), in Tahitian, requesting three bottles of wine.","description":"\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ePŌMARE V (1839–1891), Last King of Tahiti.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eOriginal Autograph Note Signed (\"Pōmare V\"), in Tahitian, requesting three bottles of wine. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; 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font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eI \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003etereti\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; 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font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003etoru\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003emohina\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ewaina\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eiteie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eTirara\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ePōmare V\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e“Dear delegate,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eGreetings\u003cbr\u003ePlease give me three \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003elittle bottles of wine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThat is all\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ePōmare V.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThis short autograph note is written in Tahitian and signed by Pōmare V (1839-1891). His request for three bottles of wine is particularly evocative given his well-documented dependence on alcohol.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThe note’s reference to wine illustrates the extent to which European customs and imported goods had become integrated into Tahitian society by the late nineteenth century. Wine was unknown to Tahitians prior to European contact, with ’ava (Kava), a drink reserved for special occasions, the only available psychoactive drink. By the reign of P\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eōmare V, however, imported food, clothing and wine had become commonplace among the Tahitian elite.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eP\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eōmare V (1839–1891), born \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eTeri‘i\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eTari‘a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eTe-rā-tane\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e, was the last King of Tahiti, reigning from 1877 until 1880. He had succeeded his mother, Queen P\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eōmare IV, under whose rule Tahiti had become a French protectorate following defeat in the Franco-Tahitian War of 1847. Politically paralysed and removed from power, P\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eōmare V spent years playing cards and drinking late into the evenings.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eIn 1880, after years of French encroachment, P\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eōmare V formally ceded sovereignty to France, bringing an end to the independent Tahitian monarchy. 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