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Artist unknown :Relics of Captain Cook, collected by him during the voyage of the "Endeavour" and recently acquired by the New South Wales Government. The Graphic, October 1, 1887, [page] 356
- Date
- 1769 - 1887 - 1770
- By
- Graphic (London, England)
- Reference
- A-433-012
- Description
Shows 29 numbered objects, listed as follows:
1. Carved club, New Zealand
2 and 3. Fish-hooks, New Zealand
4. Club, New Zealand
5. Carved and stained shield, Botany Bay
6 and 7. Dagger and shear-head, edged with shark's teeth, Pacific Islands
8. Head of a spear, Pacific Islands
9. Heads of elaborately carved wooden spears, New Zealand
10. Wooden blood-bowl, used to hand round among the victors the blood of those they had slain
11. Carving representing a native deity, New Zealand
12. Papapatoo [ie patu] in carved wood, New Zealand
13. Elaborately carved paddle, New Zealand
14. Paddle carved with the symbol or mark of the lineal descent of the chief to whom it belonged, New Zealand
15. Mummified head of a New Zealand chief, with jade ear-pendant
16. Heraldic symbol of line of descent, tattooed on the left temple. Enlarged from no. 15
17. Mummified head of a native, New Zealand
18. Papapatoo made of basaltic greenstone, New Zealand
19. Stone hammer, New Holland
20. Stone hatchet, on which is written "Brought to England in 1771 by Captain Cook, from Otaheite"
21. Triton-shell, converted into a trumpet, and mounted with human hair and shin-bone, Pacific Islands
22. Carved dragon-head with fish-scale body, probably from Batavia
23. Meraare (or sceptre) with idolatrous carving. On it are scratched the words "Made for me by Wonga - J.C."
24. Boar's tusk, carved by Jackson, a seaman on board the "Endeavour". Copy of a figure-head
25. Carved ivory tomahawk handle, New Zealand
26. Stone hatchet, New Zealand
27. Carved tortoise-shell ornament upon conch-shell, Pacific Islands
28. Large paddle, Pacific Islands
29. Carved war club in the form of a paddle, New Zealand
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Engravings on page 405 x 292 mm.
Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, May 2010.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 b&w art print(s), Works of art, Engravings, Ethnographic illustrations, Engravings on page 405 x 292 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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