Cook-voyage collections of 'artificial curiosities' in Britain and Ireland, 1771-2015 / edited by Jeremy Coote.

"Cook-Voyage Collections of 'Artificial Curiosities' in Britain and Ireland, 1771-2015 comprises detailed accounts of some of the most important ethnographic collections from Cook voyages, including those of the British Museum, the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, the National Museum of Ireland (ex Trinity College Dublin), and National Museums Scotland. As well as providing a wealth of new information about what was collected on the voyages and how it was distributed - including illustrated accounts of recently identified objects at the British Museum, the Bowes Museum, and elsewhere - the volume also contains detailed accounts of what has been done with the collections from the time of their arrival in Britain and Ireland in the 1770s through to today. Contents: 300 pp., 106 black-and-white figures; Jeremy Coote, 'Introduction'; Jennifer Newell, 'Revisiting Cook at the British Museum'; Amiria Salmond, 'Artefacts of Encounter: The Cook-Voyage Collections in Cambridge'; Jeremy Coote, 'The Cook-Voyage Collections at Oxford, 1772-2015'; Rachel Hand, '"A Number of Highly Interesting Objects": The Cook-Voyage Collections of Trinity College Dublin'; Dale Idiens and Chantal Knowles, 'Cook-Voyage Collections in Edinburgh, 1775-2011'; Leslie Jessop, 'Cook-Voyage Collections in North-East England, with a Preliminary Report on a Group of Måaori Pendants Apparently Traceable to the First Voyage'; Adrienne L. Kaeppler, 'From the South Seas to the World (via London)'."--Provided by the publisher.