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Tracking travelling taonga : a narrative review of how Māori items got to London from 1798, to Salem in 1802, 1807 and 1812, and elsewhere up to 1840 / by Rhys Richards.

Title: Tracking travelling taonga : a narrative review of how Māori items got to London from 1798, to Salem in 1802, 1807 and 1812, and elsewhere up to 1840 / by Rhys Richards.
Author: Richards, Rhys
Publication: Wellington, New Zealand : Paremata Press, 2015.

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Description

274 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

"Very few Maori items with adequate provenances survive from the fifty years between the death of Captain Cook and the start of the colony of New Zealand in 1840. This narrative-review looks at how Pacific maritime history and other sources can be used to track travelling taonga now in museums and other collections around the globe...This narrative is the product of extensive travel to most of the relevant collections and has required two further years checking and cross-checking a very wide range of sources. Priority has been given to finding taonga and to making their whereabouts better known. Obtaining top quality illustrations in colour was far beyond the resources of this budget venture, but every effort has been made to include over 100 existing illustrations in black and white. Other writers with better resources can now meet the challenge to develop this beginning so that the motifs and styles developed by Maori in the post-Cook years from 1790 to 1840 can be better analyzed and better understood"--Publisher's description.

Subject

Genre/Form

History
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

Also available in an electronic edition.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Machine-generated contents note: A French Visit to North Cape on 11 March 1793 -- Lieutenant-Governor King from Norfolk Island to Muriwhenua in 1793 -- The Fancy Trading for spars at Waihou (Thames) in 1795 -- Mathew Flinders' Tiki in 1795 -- Sealers, Early Whalers and Spar Traders -- American Traders to China -- How Daniel Ward's Donations Reached Salem in 1802 -- The Donations of John Fitzpatrick Jeffrie in 1803 -- The Donations of Captain William Richardson in 1807 -- The Donations of Captain William Putnam Richardson in 1812 -- Pacific Sealskins, Sandalwood and Beche de Mer -- Other Early Taonga in American Collections -- The Russians at Queen Charlotte Sound in 1820 -- The Early Missionaries: Kendall and Marsden -- The British Navy's Search for Spars 1820-21 -- Muskets for Preserved Heads from 1810 to 1840 -- The French Collectors from 1824 to 1840 -- Taonga in Other European Museums -- Sperm Whalers from 1820 to 1840 -- Six British Collectors of Taonga, 1820 to 1840 -- The Three Maori Cloaks Donated by Mr C. Pettet -- The Flax Trade from 1828 to 1833 -- The Global Travels of the Mokomokai Daniel Aborn donated in 1831 -- Taonga from the South Island -- Remaining British Collections 1820 to 1840 -- The United States Exploring Expedition in 1840 -- Lost Provenances -- Retrospect: The Collecting of Taonga before 1840.

ISBN

9780473331993
0473331993

OCLC

929124022
SCSB-10546626

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library