The Tübingen Poupou

A Maori Carving from James Cook´s First Voyage of Discovery

Volker Harms (Autor)

Buch

96 Seiten

2017
Museum der Universität Tübingen - MUT (Verlag)
978-3-9817947-6-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Tuebingen University Museum MUT hosts a number of unique artifacts. The highlight of the Tuebingen ethnological collection is the object called a „Poupou“ - a panel with an ancestor's depiction from a meeting-house in New Zealand. It's special importance derives from the fact that it hails from the first expedition to the South Pacific of british explorer James Cook (1768-1771). It is also the only architectural piece of a Maori-building that ever came to a museum outside of New Zealand from one of Cook's three expeditions.
This publication explains the meaning of the Poupou as a cultural rarity as well as a representative object of Maori culture. At the same time the monograph offers insight into the era of exploration and voyaging of the 18th century.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.08.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Kleine Monographien des MUT ; 8
• Zusatzinfo: Durchgehend farbige Abbildungen
• Verlagsort: Tübingen
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 110 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
• Schlagworte: Ethnologie • Ethnologische Sammlung • Maori • Neuseeland • Schnitzkunst • Tübingen
• ISBN-10: 3-9817947-6-1 / 3981794761
• ISBN-13: 978-3-9817947-6-2 / 9783981794762
• Zustand: Neuware