Cook-Voyage Collectionsat the Pitt Rivers Museum
Further Resources
This page provides links to PDFs of some Key Publications, selected Further Readings, a complete Bibliography of all the works cited in the website, and selected Websites.
Please also be sure to visit the 'Conserving "Curiosities"' project blog for further information about the work done by the conservation team at the Pitt Rivers Museum on objects in the Cook-Voyage Collections (http://conserving-curiosities.blogspot.co.uk)
Jeremy Coote and Jeremy Uden (November 2013)
Key Publications
Further publications will be added as they become available.
Gathercole, Peter no date [1970]. 'From the Islands of the South Seas, 1773–4': An Exhibition of a Collection Made on Capn. Cook's Second Voyage of Discovery by J. R. Forster—A Short Guide, Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum. [Guide to the exhibition of the same name held at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford from 1 May 1970 to late 1971.]
Charlton, Andrew, Kelly Domoney and Jeremy Uden 2014. 'Pesticide Residues on the Cook-voyage Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford' ICOM-CC 17th Triennial Conference, Melbourne
Coote, Jeremy 2004. 'An Interim Report on a Previously Unknown Collection from Cook's First Voyage: The Christ Church Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford', Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 16, pp. 111–21. (© Museum Ethnographers Group 2004. Reproduced here with the kind permission of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Museum Ethnography and the Committee of the Museum Ethnographers Group.)
Coote, Jeremy 2004. 'Curiosities from the Endeavour: A Forgotten Collection – Pacific Artefacts Given by Joseph Banks to Christ Church, Oxford after the First Voyage', Whitby: Captain Cook Memorial Museum. [Catalogue of an exhibition of the same name held at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby, from 6 March to 30 November 2004.] (© Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby, 2004. Reproduced here with the kind permission of the Trustees of the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby.)
Coote, Jeremy 2005. '"From the Islands of the South Seas, 1773–4": Peter Gathercole's Special Exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum', Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 17, pp. 8–31. (© Museum Ethnographers Group 2005. Reproduced here with the kind permission of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Museum Ethnography and the Committee of the Museum Ethnographers Group.)
Coote, Jeremy 2008. 'Joseph Banks's Forty Brass Patus', Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 20, pp. 49–68. (© Museum Ethnographers Group 2008. Reproduced here with the kind permission of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Museum Ethnography and the Committee of the Museum Ethnographers Group.)
Coote, Jeremy 2015. 'The Cook-Voyage Collections at Oxford, 1772-2015', in Jeremy Coote (ed.), Cook-Voyage Collections of 'Artificial Curiosities in Britian and Ireland, 1771-2015 (MEG Occasional Paper, No. 5), Oxford: Museum Ethnographers Group (2015), pp.74-122. (© Museum Ethnographers Group 2015. Reproduced here with the kind permission of the Committe of the Museum Ethnographers Group.)
Coote, Jeremy, and Jeremy Uden 2013. 'The Rediscovery of a Society Islands Tamau, or Headdress of Human Hair, in the "Cook-Voyage" Forster Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum—and a Possible Provenance', Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 122, no. 3 (September), pp. 233–55.
Coote, Jeremy, and Christopher Morton 2015. '"Dressed as a New Zealander", or an Ethnographic Mischmasch? Notes and Reflections on Two Photographs by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)', Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 28, pp. 150-172. ( © Museum Ethnographers Group 2015. Reproduced here with the kind permission of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Museum Ethnography and the Committee of the Museum Ethnographers Group.)
Selected Further Readings
On Joseph Banks
Beaglehole, John Cawte 1962. 'Introduction: The Young Banks', in Volume 1 of The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, 1768–1771 (2 vols), ed. J. C. Beaglehole, Sydney: Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales (in association with Angus and Robertson), pp. 1–126.
Beaglehole, John Cawte (ed.) 1962. The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, 1768-1771 (2 vols), Sydney: Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales (in association with Angus and Robertson).
Carter, Harold B. 1987. Sir Joseph Banks, (1743–1820): A Guide to Biographical and Bibliographical Sources, Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies (in association with the British Museum (Natural History)).
Carter, Harold B. 1988. Sir Joseph Banks, 1743–1820, London: British Museum (Natural History).
Chambers, Neil 2003. 'Joseph Banks, the British Museum and Collections in the Age of Empire' in R. G. W. Anderson, M. L. Caygill, A. G. MacGregor, and L. Syson (eds), Enlightening the British: Knowledge, Discovery and the Museum in the Eighteenth Century, London: The British Museum Press, pp. 99–112.
On the Forsters
Forster, Johann George 1777. A Voyage Round the World in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop, Resolution, Commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the Years 1772, 3, 4, and 5 (2 vols), London.
Forster, Johann George 2000 [1777]. A Voyage Round the World (2 vols; eds Nicholas Thomas and Oliver Berghof), Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
Forster, Johann Reinhold 1778. Observations Made during a Voyage Round the World on Physical Geography, Natural History, and Ethic Philosophy..., London.
Forster, Johann Reinhold 1982. The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster 1772–1775 (4 vols; Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, Vols. 152–155; ed. Michael E. Hoare), London: The Hakluyt Society.
Forster, Johann Reinhold 1996 [1778]. Observations Made during a Voyage Round the World (eds Nicholas Thomas, Harriet Guest, and Michael Dettelbach), Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
Gordon, Joseph Stuart 1975. Reinhold and Georg Forster in England, 1766–1780. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina: Ph.D. Thesis. [Copy held in the Balfour Library, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.]
Hoare, Michael E. 1967. 'Johann Reinhold Forster: The Neglected "Philosopher" of Cook's Second Voyage (1772–1775)', Journal of Pacific History, Vol. 2, pp. 215–24.
Hoare, Michael E. 1976. The Tactless Philosopher: Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–98), Melbourne: Hawthorn Press.
Hoare, Michael E. (ed.) 1979. Enlightenment and New Zealand: Essays Commemorating the Visit of Johann Reinhold Forster and George Forster with James Cook to Queen Charlotte and Dusky Sounds, Wellington, New Zealand: National Art Gallery.
On Cook's Voyages
Gascoigne, John 2007. Captain Cook: Voyager Between Worlds, London: Hambledon Continuum.
Salmond, Anne 2003. The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas, London: Allen Lane.
Thomas, Nicholas 2003. Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook, London: Allen Lane.
On the Cook-Voyage Collections
Hauser-Schäublin, Brigitta, and Gundolf Krüger (eds) 1998. James Cook: Gifts and Treasures from the South Seas—The Cook/Forster Collection, Göttingen / Gaben und Schätze aus der Südsee—Die Göttinger Sammlung Cook/Forster, Munich and New York: Prestel.
Hetherington, Michelle, and Howard Morphy (eds), Discovering Cook's Collections, Canberra: National Museum of Australia,
Kaeppler, Adrienne L. 1978. 'Artificial Curiosities': Being an Exposition of Native Manufactures Collected on the Three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook, R.N. at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum January 18, 1978–August 31, 1978 on the Occasion of the Bicentennial of the European Discovery of the Hawaiian Islands by Captain Cook—January 18, 1778 (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication 65), Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press. [Catalogue of an exhibition of the same name held at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum from 18 January to 31 August 1978.]
Kaeppler, Adrienne L. (ed.) 1978. Cook Voyage Artifacts in Leningrad, Berne and Florence Museums (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication 66), Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press.
Kaeppler, Adrienne L. et al. 2009. James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific, London: Thames & Hudson.
Bibliography (downloadable pdf)
Links
There are materials relating to Cook's voyages in hundreds of institutions—museums, libraries, and archives—around the world. The following sites provide direct access to some of these materials, links to the institutions that hold other relevant collections, and guides to further resources.
Cook's Pacific Encounters: Cook-Forster Collection Online. A site managed by the National Museum of Australia exploring more than 300 Pacific artefacts held by the Georg-August University of Göttingen
James Cook and His Voyages. A site managed by the National Library of Australia with links to documents relating to the three voyages
Captain James Cook's Voyages of Discovery. A site managed by the State Library of New South Wales, with links to images and manuscripts relating to the voyages
Captain Cook's Last Voyage. A site managed by the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkammer), St Petersburg relating to the special exhibition of the same name
Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology Ethnographic Collection. The home page of the of the ethnographic collection at Georg-August University, Göttingen:
Captain James Cook. A site managed by Royal Museums Greenwich
Cook Voyage Artefacts in the Hunterian. A site managed by the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow
The home page of the Captain Cook Society
The home page of the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby
The home page of the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum
The home page of the Università degli Studi di Firenze Museo di Storia Naturale
The home page of the Völkerkundemuseum, Hernnhut
The home page of the British Museum
The home page of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
The home page of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Home page of the Weltmuseum in Vienna
