Discovering Cook's collections /

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 Paci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hetherington, Michelle, Morphy, Howard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra, A.C.T. : National Museum of Australia Press, 2009.
Temas:
Cook, James, > 1728-1779 > Ethnological collections.
Cook, James, > 1728-1779
Art objects > Pacific Area.
Material culture > Pacific Area.
Objets d'art > Pacifique, Région du.
Culture matérielle > Pacifique, Région du.
ART > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Anthropology > Private collections
Art objects
Material culture
Pacific Area
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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