Adèle de Dombasle

Gabrielle Adélaide Garreau (called Adèle Mathieu de Dombasle, 1819–1901), known as Adèle de Dombasle, was a French traveller and illustrator, who worked in the French Pacific territories during the 19th century. Her illustrations are detailed and show notable indigenous figures such as Pomare IV and King Temoana of Nuku Hiva. On her return to France she published an account of her experiences. She has been compared to figures such as Rose de Freycinet, Jeanne Leenhardt and Margaret Stokes, who were other early explorers and pioneers of women's archaeology in the Pacific.