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1 online resource (349 p.) |
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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Part I: Encountering Artefacts -- Introduction Nicholas Thomas & Julie Adams -- 1. 'Weapons, Utensils and Manufactures of various kinds': Cambridge's collections-Nicholas Thomas & Amiria Salmond -- 2. Relating to, and through, Polynesian collections-Billie Lythberg, Maia Nuku & Amiria Salmond -- 3. Artificial curiosities and travelling instruments Simon Schaffer -- Witness The Photography of Mark Adams -- Part II: Cook'S First Voyage -- Introduction |
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A string of iridescent green shells -- Artefacts from Tierra del Fuego -- An early 'ornamental carving' -- Divine archery -- A bow, quiver and arrows from Tahiti -- 'A breastplate ... for War or Mourning' -- Tahitian feather gorgets -- 'Their method of Tattowing I shall now describe' -- Tattoo instruments from Tahiti -- 'A smal quantity of cloth' -- Glazed barkcloth from the Austral Islands -- Ancestral threads -- Seven Maori cloaks -- 'Bludgeons from New Zeland' -- Maori hand weapons -- 'A New Zealand Warrior in his Proper Dress' -- Maori belts |
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'Their paddles were curiously stained' -- Two Maori paddles from the East Coast -- 'They throw'd two darts at us' -- Spears from Botany Bay -- The splendid land John Pule -- Part III: Cook'S Second and Third Voyages, and the Voyage of George Vancouver -- Introduction -- A Maori shell trumpet at Cambridge Peter Gathercole, with postcript by Amiria Salmond -- 'One threw a dart at us' -- Four artefacts from Niue -- 'Long has he used the fue' -- A Tongan fly whisk (fue kafa) -- 'The beauties of their own exquisite forms' -- Tongan adornment -- 'An aristocrat among Tongan pillows' -- Tongan headrests |
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'All Made With Surpriseing Neatness' -- Tongan clubs -- 'Such was the prevailing passion for curiosities' -- Cook voyage collections from Melanesia -- A Nuu-chah-nulth chief's rattle -- A bird rattle from Nootka Sound -- Wooden armour -- An Alutiiq (Chugach) cuirass -- 'The quivers were extremely beautifull' -- A reindeer-skin Chukchi quiver -- Between worlds -- A Northwest Coast comb -- Ceremonial whalebone weapons -- A Nuu-chah-nulth club -- 'We found them superior to our own' -- Hawaiian fishhooks and early encounters -- Travelling the world -- A wooden figure from the Hawaiian Islands |
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Protective power -- A feather helmet from the Hawaiian Islands -- 'A fascination for barkcloth' -- The first eighteenth-century barkcloth book -- Avàuli, Avanoa and Pekepekaniume Semisi Fetokai Potauaine -- Part IV: Missionaries and Travellers -- Introduction -- Implements of New South Wales -- Artefacts from the First Fleet? -- 'As much as three men could lift' -- A bale of barkcloth from Tahiti -- 'For they say ... he comes down in a whirlwind' -- Four sacred fans from the Austral Islands -- Fine fancy and delicate taste' -- The Queen of Ràiatea's royal robe |
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Instantiating divinity -- A spectacular 'warrior's cap' from the Cook Islands |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781988592664 |
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1988592666 |
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