Originally published: Canberra, ACT : National Museum of Australia, 2009.
ISBN 9781876944575 on t.p. verso is for National Museum of Australia, 2009 ed.
Set in 16 pt. Verdana.
Includes bibliographical references and brief biographies of the authors.
Encountering Cook's collections / Michelle Hetherington and Howard Morphy -- Looking across the beach -- both ways / Greg Denning -- Cook, the discoverer : George Foster's monument to Captain Cook / Nigel Erskine -- The Chief mourner's costume ; religion and political change in the Society Islands, 1768-73 / Paul Turnbull --'To attempt some new discoveries in the vast unknown tract' : rediscovering the Forster collections from Cook's second Pacific voyage / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Brushed with fame : museological investments in the Cook voyage collections / Lissant Bolton -- Footprints in the sand : Bank's Maori collection, Cook's first voyage 1768-71 / Paul Tapsell -- Cook, his mission and Indigenous Australia : a perspective on consequence / Doreen Mellor -- Author's biographies.
"Discovering Cook's collections focuses on the collections of art and material culture brought back from the Pacific on Captain Cook's voyages ... The essays explore the history of the collections, their dispersal through the museums and private collections of Europe and the different ways in which they have been interpreted over time."--Back cover.