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

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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