This image shows the interior of a house in Oonalashka (Alaska). Webber sketched the original in July 1778, during James Cook's third Pacific voyage. Webber was recorded as sketching Native Habitations at Samgoonoodha (English Bay) in both Cook and David Samwell's accounts of the voyage.
The British Admiralty appointed John Webber as the artist on Captain James Cook's third expedition (1776-1780). The engraving is part of a series of 78 plates, based on some of Webber's many drawings from the voyage, by various engravers. They were first printed as part of an Atlas volume accompanying the journals of the expedition commanders, titled A voyage to the Pacific Ocean, undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere, etc.
The engravings were made, with Webber's assistance, from his original sketches and watercolours, and subjects include Indigenous people, artifacts and views from the Pacific Islands, North America, Alaska and Siberia.