Research Catalog
Discovering Cook's collections
- Title
- Discovering Cook's collections / edited by Michelle Hetherington and Howard Morphy.
- Publication
- Canberra, A.C.T. : National Museum of Australia Press, 2009.
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- Description
- v, 130 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Cook, James, 1728-1779 > Ethnological collections
- Cook, James, 1728-1779
- Cook, James, 1728-1779
- Art objects, Pacific Island
- Material culture > Pacific Area
- Cultural heritage - Protection - Museums and keeping places - Collections and acquisitions
- Indigenous peoples - Pacific
- Indigenous peoples - Pacific - Maori
- Technology
- Anthropology > Private collections
- Art objects, Pacific Island
- Material culture
- Whare taonga
- Tahiti
- Tonga
- Pacific Islands
- Pacific Area
- Genre/Form
- Conference proceedings.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781876944575
- 1876944579
- LCCN
- 2010413092
- OCLC
- ocn652771670
- 652771670
- SCSB-1567291
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library