Contents

Foreword

Craddock Morton

Introduction

Encountering Cook's collections
Howard Morphy and Michelle Hetherington

1.   Looking across the beach — both ways

Greg Dening

2.   Cook, the discoverer

Georg Forster's monument to Captain Cook
Nigel Erskine

3.   The chief mourner's costume

Religion and political change in the Society Islands, 1768-73
Paul Turnbull

4.   ‘To attempt some new discoveries in that vast unknown tract’

Rediscovering the Forster collections from Cook's second Pacific voyage
Adrienne L Kaeppler

5.   Brushed with fame

Museological investments in the Cook voyage collections
Lissant Bolton

6.   Footprints in the sand

Banks's Maori collection, Cook's first voyage 1768-71
Paul Tap sell

7.   Cook, his mission and Indigenous Australia

A perspective on consequence
Doreen Mellor

Authors’ biographies