2018/01/02 by Nicholas Thomas · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Maritime and Coastal Archaeology #Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies #Indigenous #Identity (music) #Bay #Identification (biology) #Archaeology #History #Genealogy #Geography #Art history #Art #Botany #Ecology #Aesthetics #Biology
paper · doi:10.1080/1031461x.2017.1414862
openalex publication_date 2018/01/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Collections of Indigenous artefacts made during the voyages of Captain James Cook have been extensively researched, but significant issues around the provenance and identification of artefacts remain complex and unresolved. This article considers the case of a shield in the British Museum, said for fifty years to have been appropriated by Cook at the time of first contacts with Gweagal in April 1770, and other artefacts associated with the same encounters.