page_title: Purea
hierarchical_section_title: Purea
caption_attribution_description: Watercolor of Queen Purea (Oberea).
context_page_description: Purea, Tevahine-'ai-roro-atua-i-Ahurai, also called Oborea, was a queen from the Landward Teva tribe and a self-proclaimed ruler of all Tahiti. Queen Purea is known from the first famous European expeditions to Tahiti. She ruled as chieftainess of her tribe area in 1767–1768, when she was encountered by the expedition of Samuel Wallis.
context_section_description: Purea, Tevahine-'ai-roro-atua-i-Ahurai, also called Oborea (floruit 1769), was a queen from the Landward Teva tribe and a self-proclaimed ruler of all Tahiti. Queen Purea is known from the first famous European expeditions to Tahiti. She ruled as chieftainess of her tribe area in 1767–1768, when she was encountered by the expedition of Samuel Wallis.
caption: Costume design for the character of Purea, for the pantomime Omai by Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1785
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