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Discovering Cooks Collections
Paperback Edition: 1
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.
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Discovering Cook’s Collections 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
history of the collections, their dispersal through the museums and private collections of Europe and thedifferent ways in which they have been interpreted over time.
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Pages : 136
Publisher : National Museum of Australia
Publication date : 2008-05
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Science And Technology, History, Earth Science, Australasian & Pacific History, Geographical Discovery & Exploration