The Resource Discovering Cook's collections, edited by Michelle Hetherington and Howard Morphy
Discovering Cook's collections, edited by Michelle Hetherington and Howard Morphy
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The item Discovering Cook's collections, edited by Michelle Hetherington and Howard Morphy represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Discovering Cook's collections, edited by Michelle Hetherington and Howard Morphy represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (v, 105 pages)
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781876944865
- Label
- Discovering Cook's collections
- Title
- Discovering Cook's collections
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Michelle Hetherington and Howard Morphy
- Subject
-
- Pacific Area
- ART -- History | Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
- Anthropology -- Private collections
- Art objects
- Art objects -- Pacific Area
- Cook, James, 1728-1779
- Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Ethnological collections
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Material culture
- Material culture -- Pacific Area
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- E7B
- Dewey number
- 709.043
- Government publication
- federal national government publication
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- GN663
- LC item number
- .D56 2009eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
-
- Hetherington, Michelle
- Morphy, Howard
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Cook, James
- Art objects
- Material culture
- Cook, James
- ART
- Anthropology
- Art objects
- Material culture
- Pacific Area
- Label
- Discovering Cook's collections, edited by Michelle Hetherington and Howard Morphy
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 785785343
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (v, 105 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781876944865
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- b9e61218-9fc6-4aa6-aa6d-479ea157fe11
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)785785343
- Label
- Discovering Cook's collections, edited by Michelle Hetherington and Howard Morphy
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 785785343
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (v, 105 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781876944865
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- b9e61218-9fc6-4aa6-aa6d-479ea157fe11
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)785785343
Subject
- Pacific Area
- ART -- History | Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
- Anthropology -- Private collections
- Art objects
- Art objects -- Pacific Area
- Cook, James, 1728-1779
- Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Ethnological collections
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Material culture
- Material culture -- Pacific Area
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