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Hunting the Collectors - Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Hunting the Collectors - Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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This volume investigates Pacific collections held in Australian
museums, art galleries and archives, and the diverse group of 19th
and 20th century collectors responsible for their acquisition. The
nineteen essays reveal varied personal and institutional
motivations that eventually led to the conservation, preservation
and exhibition in Australia of a remarkable archive of Pacific
Island material objects, art and crafts, photographs and documents.
Hunting the Collectors benchmarks the importance of Pacific
Collections in Australia and is a timely contribution to the
worldwide renaissance of interest in Oceanic arts and cultures. The
essays suggest that the custodial role is not fixed and immutable
but fluctuates with the perceived importance of the collection,
which in turn fluctuates with the level of national interest in the
Pacific neighbourhood. This cyclical rise and fall of Australian
interest in the Pacific Islands means many of the valuable early
collections in state and later national repositories and
institutions have been rarely exhibited or published. But, as the
authors note, enthusiastic museum anthropologists, curators,
collection managers and university-based scholars across Australia,
and worldwide, have persisted with research on material collected
in the Pacific.This volume is a very important one for anyone
studying the art and material culture of the Pacific. It focuses on
collections now in Australia. Even those well versed in museum
collections from the Pacific will learn about many important but
little-known collectors as well as better-known figures like the
anthropologists F. E. Williams and Thomas Farrell, the husband of
Queen Emma. This will be a treat for students and specialist
alike.-Professor Robert L. Welsch, University of Dartmouth
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