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Tongan barkcloth, made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry
tree, still features lavishly in Polynesian ceremonies all over the
world. Yet despite the attention paid to this textile by
anthropologists and art historians alike, little is known about its
history. Providing a unique insight into Polynesian material
culture, this book explores barkcloth's rich cultural history, and
argues that its manufacture, decoration and use are vehicles of
creativity and female agency. Based on twelve years of extensive
ethnographic and archival research, the book uncovers stories of
ceremony, gender, the senses, religion and nationhood, from the
17th century up to the present-day. Placing the materiality of
textiles at the heart of Tongan culture, Veys reveals not only how
barkcloth was and continues to be made, but also how it defines
what it means to be Tongan. Extending the study to explore the
place of barkcloth in the European imagination, she examines
international museum collections of Tongan barkcloth, from the UK
and Italy to Switzerland and the USA, addressing the bias of the
European 'gaze' and challenging traditional gendered understandings
of the cloth. A nuanced narrative of past and present barkcloth
manufacture, designs and use, Unwrapping Tongan Barkcloth
demonstrates the importance of the textile to both historical and
contemporary Polynesian culture.
This book is a study of 'collecting' undertaken by Joseph Antoine
Bruni d'Entrecasteaux and his shipmates in Tasmania, the western
Pacific Islands, and Indonesia. In 1791-1794 Bruni d'Entrecasteaux
led a French naval expedition in search of the lost vessels of La
Perouse which had last been seen by Europeans at Botany Bay in
March 1788. After Bruni d'Entrecasteaux died near the end of the
voyage and the expedition collapsed in political disarray in Java,
its collections and records were subsequently scattered or lost.
The book's core is a richly illustrated examination, analysis, and
catalogue of a large array of ethnographic objects collected during
the voyage, later dispersed, and recently identified in museums in
France, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United
States. The focus on artefacts is informed by a broad conception of
collecting as grounded in encounters or exchanges with Indigenous
protagonists and also as materialized in other genres-written
accounts, vocabularies, and visual representations (drawings,
engravings, and maps). Historically, the book outlines the
antecedents, occurrences, and aftermath of the voyage, including
its location within the classic era of European scientific voyaging
(1766-1840) and within contemporary colonial networks. Particular
chapters trace the ambiguous histories of the extant collections.
Ethnographically, contributors are alert to local settings,
relationships, practices, and values; to Indigenous uses and
significance of objects; to the reciprocal, dialogic nature of
collecting; to local agency or innovation in exchanges; and to
present implications of objects and their histories, especially for
modern scholars and artists, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.
This book is a study of 'collecting' undertaken by Joseph Antoine
Bruni d'Entrecasteaux and his shipmates in Tasmania, the western
Pacific Islands, and Indonesia. In 1791-1794 Bruni d'Entrecasteaux
led a French naval expedition in search of the lost vessels of La
Perouse which had last been seen by Europeans at Botany Bay in
March 1788. After Bruni d'Entrecasteaux died near the end of the
voyage and the expedition collapsed in political disarray in Java,
its collections and records were subsequently scattered or lost.
The book's core is a richly illustrated examination, analysis, and
catalogue of a large array of ethnographic objects collected during
the voyage, later dispersed, and recently identified in museums in
France, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United
States. The focus on artefacts is informed by a broad conception of
collecting as grounded in encounters or exchanges with Indigenous
protagonists and also as materialized in other genres-written
accounts, vocabularies, and visual representations (drawings,
engravings, and maps). Historically, the book outlines the
antecedents, occurrences, and aftermath of the voyage, including
its location within the classic era of European scientific voyaging
(1766-1840) and within contemporary colonial networks. Particular
chapters trace the ambiguous histories of the extant collections.
Ethnographically, contributors are alert to local settings,
relationships, practices, and values; to Indigenous uses and
significance of objects; to the reciprocal, dialogic nature of
collecting; to local agency or innovation in exchanges; and to
present implications of objects and their histories, especially for
modern scholars and artists, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.
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