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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461410903321

Titolo

Discovering Cook's collections / / edited by Michelle Hetherington, Howord Morphy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, A.C.T : , : National Museum of Australia, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

1-921953-07-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (111 p.)

Disciplina

069.53

Soggetti

Art objects - Packing

Material culture - Oceania

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Looking across the beach - both ways; 2. Cook, the discoverer; 3. The chief mourner's costume; 4. 'To attempt some new discoveries in that vast unknown tract'; 5. Brushed with fame; 6. Footprints in the sand; 7. Cook, his mission and Indigenous Australia; Authors' biographies

Sommario/riassunto

Discovering Cook's Collections focuses on the collections of art and material culture brought back from the Pacific on Captain Cook's voyages and contains essays by some of the world's leading and most innovative historians and anthropologists. The book 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 and t