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National Library of Australia cataloguing-in-publication data

Discovering Cook's collections/editors: Michelle Hetherington, Howard Morphy.
ISBN: 9781876944575 (pbk)

Subjects: Cook, James, 1728-1779 — Ethnological collections.
Art objects — Islands of the Pacific.
Material culture — Islands of the Pacific.
Other authors/Contributors:
Hetherington, Michelle, 1959-Morphy, Howard.

709.043

Publications manager: Julie Ogden
Publisher's editor: Thérèse Weber, Claudia Marchesi
Design and typesetting: Po Sung

Cover image: ‘Amusements of the Tahitians and the Engîish’: Trading for Mirrors and Beads, engraving published in Jean-Pierre Bérenger, Collection de tous les voyages faits autour de monde par les différentes nations de l’Europe
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