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The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795-1855 - Maritime Encounters and British Museum Collections (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795-1855 - Maritime Encounters and British Museum Collections (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Pacific History
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This book offers the first in-depth enquiry into the origins of 135
Indigenous Australian objects acquired by the Royal Navy between
1795 and 1855 and held now by the British Museum. In response to
increasing calls for the 'decolonisation' of museums and the
restitution of ethnographic collections, the book seeks to return
knowledge of the moments, methods, and motivations whereby
Indigenous Australian objects were first collected and sent to
Britain. By structuring its discussion in terms of three key
'stages' of a typical naval voyage to Australia-departure from
British shores, arrival on the continent's coasts, and eventual
return to port-the book offers a nuanced and multifaceted
understanding of the pathways followed by these 135 objects into
the British Museum. The book offers important new understandings of
Indigenous Australian peoples' reactions to naval visitors, and
contains a wealth of original research on the provenance and
meaning of some of the world's oldest extant Indigenous Australian
object collections.
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