Discovering Cook's Collection

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Cover of the book Discovering Cook's Collection by Michelle Hetherington, National Museum Australia
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Author: Michelle Hetherington ISBN: 9781876944865
Publisher: National Museum Australia Publication: February 1, 2012
Imprint: National Museum Australia Language: English
Author: Michelle Hetherington
ISBN: 9781876944865
Publisher: National Museum Australia
Publication: February 1, 2012
Imprint: National Museum Australia
Language: English
Discovering Cooks Collections focuses on the collections of art and material culture brought back from the Pacific on Captain Cooks voyages and contains essays by some of the worlds 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 the different ways in which they have been interpreted over time.
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Discovering Cooks Collections focuses on the collections of art and material culture brought back from the Pacific on Captain Cooks voyages and contains essays by some of the worlds 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 the different ways in which they have been interpreted over time.

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