National Museum of Australia – Audio on demand program – Footprints in the sand: Banks’ Maori collection, Cook’s first voyage 1768-1771

Footprints in the sand: Banks’ Maori collection, Cook’s first voyage 1768-1771

Paul Tapsell, Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand

Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006

Historian Paul Tapsell discusses how artefacts in Joseph Banks’ collection from Captain James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific can be viewed as ‘taonga’, or Maori treasured possessions.

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collection, cook, indigenous, museums, pacific

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