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

• Pubblicazione: Canberra, A.C.T : , : National Museum of Australia, , [2009]; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (111 p.)
• Disciplina: 069.53
• Soggetto topico: Art objects - Packing; Material culture - Oceania
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): HetheringtonMichelle; MorphyHoword
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Discovering Cook's collections
• ISBN: 1-921953-07-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461410903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II