Major Exhibition of Early Pacific Art Announced!!!

I got this from the Honolulu acedemy of Arts site.

The Honolulu Academy of Arts will present an extraordinary exhibition of Pacific objects collected during the voyages of Captain James Cook (1728-79) between 1768 and 1779. Life in the Pacific of the 1700s will be on view from February 23 through May 14, 2006.

The exhibition is being organized by the Honolulu Academy of Arts in cooperation with the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the George August University of Göttingen in Lower Saxony, Germany. This collection, famous among scientists but little–known to the general public, has up to now been available only for private study purposes at the University in Göttingen. The occasion of the Honolulu exhibition, which will present some 500 objects from New Zealand, Tonga, Tahiti and the Society Islands, the Marquesas, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Hawai'i, and the Northwest Coast of America, will be the first time that the entire collection will be shown in a public museum. Of the hundreds of works in the exhibition, the largest numbers come from Tonga, Tahiti, and New Zealand, while thirty-five of the works come from Hawai'i.

The agreement was signed and announced in Hannover, Germany, in a joint press conference held October 11, 2004 by the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Göttingen, the Lower Saxony State Museum of Hannover, and the Foundation of Lower Saxony at the Foundation’s Joseph-Joachim-Hall in Hannover, Germany.

Read more> http://www.honoluluacademy.org/about/press_releases/cook.pdf

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