Rārangi
Rārangi
Momo Taonga
Ingoa/Taitara
A catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the Southern Hemisphere; with a particular account of the manner of the manufacturing the same in the various islands of the South Seas; partly extracted from Mr Anderson and Reinhold Forster's observations, and the verbal account of some of the most knowing of the navigators: with some anecdotes that happened to them among the natives
Kaiwaihanga Matua
Kaituku Kōrero/Kaiwhakaputa
Printed for Alexander Shaw
Wāhi
Rā
1787
Whakaahuatanga ā-Kiko
1 volume ([8] pages, 30 leaves) : mounted specimens ; 23 cm.
Reo
English
Taumata o te Mauhanga o Nāianei
Bib record
Ahanoa Mema
Ngā Tuhipoka Ahanoa Hāngai
Census of Alexander Shaw's catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook to the Southern Hemisphere, 1787 / Donald Kerr. Dunedin: University of Otago, 2015.
Huinga Kaupapa
Kōrero o Roto
56 specimens of tapa cloth, many at full page size, interleaved.
Following visit to Museum from Tongan royal family: The first specimen in book from Tonga was probably from the royal family, as black tapa cloth is associated with them.
Kuputuhi e Wātea Tūmatanui ana
[Keywords: Rare books--18th century]
Tales and Textiles from Cook's Pacific Voyages / Maryanne Larkin ; Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin 28.4 (2004) pp. 20-33, suggests that there are three versions of Shaw's book, with this version possibly published after 1806. Watermarks on the paper include a fleur de lys and the date 1804. AWMM copy includes a specimen noted as from Jamaica. ESTC T144279.
Momo Kohinga
Reserve Collection
Manatārua
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Whakahounga o Mua
14 Mar 2024
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