Research Catalog

Title

Pacific encounters : art & divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860 / Steven Hooper.

Author

Hooper, Steven, 1950-

Publication

Wellington, New Zealand : Te Papa Press, 2006.

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Description

287, [1] p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps; 28 cm.

Summary

"Pacific Encounters brings together for the first time many stunning Polynesian objects collected by voyagers and missionaries during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." "Illustrated are over 270 items gathered from the major regions of Polynesia. Many are from the British Museum, which houses fine and rare material from the expeditions of Captain Cook, Captain Vancouver and members of the London Missionary Society. Ranging from massive images of gods to small fish hooks, they are discussed in the contexts of their local use and meanings, and their journeys to museums all over the world. These pieces have remarkable stories to tell of encounters between humans and their gods, between Polynesians and Europeans, their respective chiefs and priests, beliefs and technologies."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

• Art and divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860
• Polynesian visual arts : meanings and histories in Pacific and European cultural contexts.

Subject

• Art, Polynesian > Exhibitions
• Material culture > Polynesia > Exhibitions
• Polynesia > Antiquities
• Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• First published: London : British Museum Press, 2006.
• Published to accompany the exhibition: Pacific encounters : art and divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich 21 May-13 August 2006.
• Book and exhibition part of the research project: Polynesian visual arts : meanings and histories in Pacific and European cultural contexts.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-283) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hawaiian Islands -- New Zealand / Aotearoa -- Easter Island / Rapa Nui -- Marquesas Islands -- Mangareva and Tuamotu islands -- Society Islands -- Austral Islands -- Cook Islands -- Western Polynesia.

ISBN

• 1877385204 (pbk.)
• 9781877385209 (pbk.)

LCCN

• ^^2006389705
• 9781877385209

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library