 Omai

Mai (c.1751-1780), mistakenly known as Omai in Britain, was a young Ra'iatean man who became the second Pacific Islander to visit Europe, after Ahu-toru who was brought to Paris by Bougainville in 1768.Ma'i described himself as a "hoa", or 'attendant upon the king', the son of a Ra'iatea landowner.