Pacific Encounters: Art & Divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860"Pacific Encounters brings together for the first time many stunning Polynesian objects collected by voyagers and missionaries during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." "Illustrated are over 270 items gathered from the major regions of Polynesia. Many are from the British Museum, which houses fine and rare material from the expeditions of Captain Cook, Captain Vancouver and members of the London Missionary Society. Ranging from massive images of gods to small fish hooks, they are discussed in the contexts of their local use and meanings, and their journeys to museums all over the world. These pieces have remarkable stories to tell of encounters between humans and their gods, between Polynesians and Europeans, their respective chiefs and priests, beliefs and technologies."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Acquired adze artefacts Austral Islands barkcloth Beaglehole 1967 bone bowl British Museum canoe Captain carved chief chiefdom club cm Cambridge cm London coir collected during Cook's Cook Islands Cook's second voyage Cook's third voyage Cook's voyages cultural CUMAA divine Donated drum Early nineteenth century Easter Island eighteenth century Wood eighteenth-century provenance eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries European example exchange feathers figure Fiji Hawaii Hawaiian Islands Hawaiian Islands Late head history not known HMS Discovery Hooper Islands Late eighteenth Islands Late eighteenth/early kava Late eighteenth century Late eighteenth/early nineteenth Leverian Museum London Missionary Society Mangareva Marquesas Islands Mid-/late eighteenth century Missionary Society Collection nineteenth centuries Wood objects Oldman Pacific pearl shell pendant Pitt Rivers Polynesian previous history purchased 1911 Ra'iatea Ra'ivavae Rarotonga Revd ritual Rurutu Society Islands Society Islands Late staff god Tahiti third voyage Kaeppler Tonga Tuamotus voyage Kaeppler 1978 Wood H Zealand