The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795-1855 Maritime Encounters and British Museum Collections

The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795-1855: Maritime Encounters and British Museum Collections by Daniel Simpson
English | PDF,EPUB | 2020 | 316 Pages | ISBN : 3030600963 | 29.9 MB
This book offers the first in-depth enquiry into the origins of the 135 Indigenous Australian objects acquired by the Royal Navy between 1795 and 1855, and held now by the British Museum. In response to increasing calls for the 'decolonisation' of museums, and the restitution of ethnographic collections, the book seeks to return knowledge of the moments, methods, and motivations whereby Indigenous Australian objects were first collected, and sent to Britain.