Discovering Cook's collections

Discovering Cook's collections

by Hetherington, Michelle Morphy, Howard

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Celebrates the richness of Pacific Island cultures in the initial years of European contact as well as the collections' contemporary relevance to historians and the Indigenous communities who produced them. The essays in this book explore the history of the collections, their dispersal through the museums and private collections of Europe.

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  • Full title :Discovering Cook's collections / edited by Michelle Hetherington and Howard Morphy.

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Celebrates the richness of Pacific Island cultures in the initial years of European contact as well as the collections' contemporary relevance to historians and the Indigenous communities who produced them. The essays in this book explore the history of the collections, their dispersal through the museums and private collections of Europe.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2009.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:v, 130 pages : : illustrations (some color), maps ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781876944575, 1876944579
  • oclc:ocn652771670
  • LC Classification:GN663
  • Dewey Decimal:709.043

Table of Contents

Foreword / Craddock Morton -- Encountering Cook's collections / Howard Morphy and Michelle Hetherington -- Looking across the beach, both ways / Greg Dening -- Cook, the discoverer: Georg Forster's monument to Captain Cook / Nigel Erskine -- Chief mourner's costume: religion and political change in the Society Islands, 1768-73 / Paul Turnbull -- 'To attempt some new discoveries in that vast unknown tract': rediscovering the Forster collections from Cook's second Pacific voyage / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Brushed with fame: museological investments in the Cook voyage collections / Lissant Bolton -- Footrprints in the sand: Banks's Maori collection, Cook's first voyage 1768-71 / Paul Tapsell -- Cook, his missiono and indigenous Australia: a perspective on consequence / Doreen Mellor.

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Subjects

Anthropology -- Private collections Art objects, Pacific Island Conference papers and proceedings Conference proceedings Cook, James Cultural heritage - Protection - Museum… Culture matérielle -- Pacifique, Région… Indigenous peoples - Pacific Indigenous peoples - Pacific - Maori Material culture Material culture -- Pacific Area Pacific Area Pacific Islands Tahiti Technology Tonga Whare taonga

Writers

Hetherington, Michelle Morphy, Howard

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