| Description |
1 online resource (v, 105 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Ethnological collections
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| SUBJECT |
Cook, James, 1728-1779. fast (OCoLC)fst00028644 |
| Subject |
Art objects -- Pacific Area
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Material culture -- Pacific Area
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ART -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
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Anthropology -- Private collections.
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Art objects.
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Material culture.
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Pacific Area.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hetherington, Michelle
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Morphy, Howard
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| LC no. |
2010413092 |
| ISBN |
9781921953071 |
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1921953071 |
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9781876944865 |
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1876944862 |
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