Curios and Taonga: Early Māori Collections in Berlin and Their Representation in the Museum für Völkerkunde (now Ethnologisches Museum)

This article gives an overview of the very early collections of Māori artefacts in Berlin. These encompass the collections assembled by Johann Reinhold and Georg Forster and others on the famous voyages of James Cook to the South Seas at the end of the eighteenth century, but also objects collected...

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Main Author: Schindlbeck, Markus
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA) 2018-07-01
Series:RIHA Journal
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Online Access:https://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2018/0189-0197-special-issue-gottfried-lindauer/0194-schindlbeck