A tupapow (tupapau), or burial shed Henry IV 'The Death of Boney by

'The Death of Boney by Sir Wm Biscuit

View showing the laying down of the Mortimer wood pavement

Picture taken 25th November 1973

A well dressed woman attended by a black footman sees her husband emerging from a brothel

26th May 1986

A tupapow (tupapau), or burial shed Henry IV 'The Death of Boney byA tupapow (tupapau), or burial shed, and a Tahitian priest, observed by Lieutenant James Cook and the crew of the Endeavour, Tahiti, 1769. In the tupapow, 'posts are set up to support the bier And here the body remains to putrify till the flesh is wholly wasted from the bones.' Illustration from An account of the voyages for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, by John Hawkesworth (London, 1773). Original: engraving. 1773