- Museum number
- Oc1978,Q.836.a
- Description
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Bucket with two hollowed wood semi-cylindrical sections, bound together with coir and encased in a tight sleeve of black and red coir decorated with tiny white and brown shell beads.
- Production date
- 1750-1799
- Dimensions
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Height: 37 centimetres
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Width: 23.50 centimetres
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Depth: 22 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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See: Kaeppler, Adrienne L, 'Artificial Curiosities : An Exposition of Native Manufactures Collected on the Three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook, R.N.', 1978, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu,p.221, fig.453, 454
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Hooper 2006:
This bucket has two hollowed wood semi-cylindrical sections, bound together with coir and encased in a tight sleeve of black and red coir decorated with tiny white and brown shell beads. The separate wood lid has a coir cover in black and red concentric circles. The base has the same concentric designs at the lid. Such receptacles were for storing valuables - ornaments, feathers, whale ivory - and appear to be a combination of the skilled labour of men and women. The bucket would not have been easy to excavate, and the coir wrapping is superbly executed and preserved. This piece was drawn by John Cleveley in 1774 shortly after the premature return of HMS Adventure from Cook's second voyage (Joppien, R. and Smith, B., 1985a:, 'The art of Captain Cook's voyages,' 3 vols in 4. New Haven and London: Yale University Press: 156, 189).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2008 16 Jun-14 Sep, Paris, Musée du quai Branly, Pacific Encounters
2006 21 May-13 Aug, Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Pacific Encounters
2009-2010 28 Aug-28 Feb, Bonn, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific
2010 10 May-13 Sept, Vienna, Museum of Ethnology, James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific
2010-2011 7 Oct-13 Feb, Bern, Historical Museum, James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific
- Acquisition notes
- Probably collected during the second of Cook's voyages (1772-1775).
Hooper 2006: Donated either in 1775 by Tobias Furneaux via the Admiralty or in 1778 by Sir Joseph Banks; collected during Cook's second voyage (Kaeppler, A.L.,1978, 'Artificial Curiosities': being an exhibition of native manufactures collected on the three Pacific voyages of Captain Cook, R.N', Special Publication 65. Honolulu: B.P. Bishop Museum: 221); brought back on HMS Adventure.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1978,Q.836.a