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Encounters with wondrous things: the historical significance of the Cook-Forster Collection
Professor Paul Turnbull, Griffith University
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
The historical significance of the Cook-Forster ethnographic collection of the University of Göttingen in Germany is examined by historian Paul Turnbull.
Captain James Cook series
- Encounters with wondrous things: the historical significance of the Cook-Forster CollectionProfessor Paul Turnbull, Griffith University
- Discovering Cook: Georg Forster and the image of Captain CookNigel Erskine, Australian National Maritime Museum
- To attempt some new discoveries in that vast unknown tractProfessor Adrienne Kaeppler, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, United States
- Looking across the beach – both waysProfessor Greg Dening, Australian National University
- Footprints in the sand: Banks’ Maori collection, Cook’s first voyage 1768-1771Paul Tapsell, Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand
- Cook, his mission and Indigenous Australia: a perspective on consequenceDoreen Mellor, National Library of Australia
- Brushed with fame: museological investments in the Cook voyage collectionsLissant Bolton, British Museum, United Kingdom
