Trading Taonga - Janet Davidson on "artificial curiosities"

Items that were traded with, stolen from or gifted by Maori who came into contact with James Cook and his crew on the Endeavour's voyages to Aotearoa New Zealand were hugely valuable - culturally but also financially.

250 years on, archeologist, author and editor Janet Davidson has produced a book detailing the "artificial curiosities", as they were called, from Cook's three Pacific voyages, and that are held in the Te Papa collection.

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