دانلود کتاب Artefacts of Encounter: Cook’s Voyages, Colonial Collecting and Museum Histories

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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
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
‘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
‘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
Protective power – A feather helmet from the Hawaiian Islands
‘A fascination for barkcloth’ – The first eighteenth-century barkcloth book
Ava`uli, 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 Ra`iatea’s royal robe
Instantiating divinity – A spectacular ‘warrior’s cap’ from the Cook Islands
Galvanising the gods – A pearlshell and feather mask from Tahiti
The potency of Tangaroa – Two whalebone and whale ivory necklaces
‘The God has arrived safely this afternoon’ – A Cook Islands god image
From father to son – Three Maori carvings
‘They set to work to furnish them’ – A Quaker traveller’s Rarotongan fan
Intricate objects, intricate relationships – A Fijian paddle-shaped club
Maru, Kahukura and Hukere – Three named ‘god-sticks’ from New Zealand
From chief to chief – The biography of a Fijian breastplate
Early artefacts from Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand
‘A superb feather cloak’ – Kamehameha II’s royal visit to Britain
He tautoko Lisa Reihana
Epilogue: Exhibiting encounter Nicholas Thomas
Perspex patu George Nuku
Part V: A Catalogue of the Early Pacific Collections at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
Appendix: The Trinity College Inventory
Notes
Select bibliography
Contributors
Index