"Artificial curiosities" : being an exposition of native manufactures collected on the three Pacific voyages of Captain James Cook, R.N., at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, January 18, 1978-August 31, 1978, on the occasion of the bicentennial of the European discovery of the Hawaiian Islands by Captain Cook, January 18, 1778 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaeppler, Adrienne L., 1935-2022
Corporate Author: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press, [1978]
Subjects:
ISBN:0910240248
9780910240246
ISSN:0067-6179
Table of Contents:
  • Natural history
  • Human history
  • Geography and navigation
  • Death of Cook
  • Literature and art
  • Memorabilia
  • Ethnography and the voyages of Captain Cook
  • Exposition of the native manufactures collected on the tree Pacific voyages of Captain Cook
  • Owhyhee or the Sandwich Isles (the Hawaiian Islands)
  • Compilations of bark cloth pieces
  • Otaheite or King George III Island (Tahiti and the Society Islands)
  • Oheteroa (Rurutu and the Austral Islands)
  • Cook Islands
  • Marquesas Islands
  • Easter Island
  • New Zealand
  • Friendly Isles (Tonga)
  • New Caledonia
  • New Hebrides
  • Australia (New Holland)
  • Pacific objects : provenance unknown
  • Nootka Sound (King George Sound)
  • Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet
  • Oonalaska (Unalaske or the Aleutian Islands)
  • St. Lawrence Bay
  • Kamchatka
  • Northwest Coast of America and Northeast Coast of Asia
  • Terra del Fuego (Tierra del Fuego)
  • Appendices: The Cook collection exhibited at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition
  • The Worden Hall Collection
  • Cook voyage objects in Glasgow, Greenwich and Wellington.