Tupaia, Captain Cook and the Voyage of the Endeavour

A Material History

Khadija Von Zinnenburg Carroll

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781350157491
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350157507
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Design
• Subtopic: Fashion Design

Centring priest and navigator Tupaia and Pacific worldviews, this richly illustrated volume weaves a new set of cultural histories in the Pacific, between local islanders and the crew of the Endeavour on James Cook's first 'voyage of discovery' (1768-1771). Contributors consider material collections brought back from the voyage, paying particular attention to Tupaia's drawings, maps, cloth and clothes, and the attending narratives that framed Britain's engagement with Pacific peoples.

Bringing together indigenous and Pacific-based artists, scholars, historians, theorists and tailors, this book presents a cross-cultural conversation around the concepts of acquired and curated artefacts that traversed oceans and entwined cultures. Each chapter draws attention to a particular material, object or process to reveal fresh insights on the voyage, the societies it brought together and the histories it transformed. Authors also explore animal iconography, instruments and ethnomusicology, and performances and rituals.

This work challenges colonial museum collections and celebrations of Cook's voyages, using materials old and new to make connections between past and present, whilst reinforcing Tupaia's agency as both a historical figure and a contemporary muse. Tracing overlapping folds of symbolism, this book draws together a picture of the diverse materials and people at the centre of cultural exchange.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Praise
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Taonga and Tupaia: Introduction to a Material History
• 2 The Whale and Wave that Washed our Minds: Notes from the Making of a Documentary
• PART ONE THE WAVE OF TUPAIA
• 3 Tupaia and the Heva Tūpāpa’u: Voyages Past, Present and Future
• 4 Art and History in Conversation: Tupaia’s Drawing of a Marae
• 5 The Pacific and the Tasman: A Conversation with Alison Bashford
• 6 ‘When It’s Rough, Don’t Pray for Good Weather. Pray for Courage’: An Interview with Anne Salmond
• 7 Rangiiwaho Ihu Ki Te Moana: Encountering the Pacific at the National Maritime Museum
• 8 Western Histories of the Endeavour Voyage: Erasures and Creations Performed, Archived and Activated
• PART TWO THE WAKE OF TUPAIA
• 9 I Didn’t Know What I Was Doing: Tupaia’s Postcolonial Funeral and Ritual Art in Britain
• 10 Conversation Pieces: Between Creases and Edges
• 11 Museopiracy and the Vacuum Package: Redressing the Commemoration of the Endeavour’s Voyage to the Pacific in Processions for Tupaia
• 12 Fishing for Pirates: Institutional Violence and the Cook Commemoration
• 13 A New Atlantic: Wayfinding Beyond the Totalizing Claims and Epistemic Violence of Eurocentric Modernity
• 14 Tupaia’s New Cloak as Transformative Healing Object
• 15 Look at Me/Don’t Look at Me: A Voyage and a Journey Around High-Vis Materials; or Explorations in Fluorescent Matters
• 16 Reparation as a Crossing: On the Filming of Procession for Tupaia as a Performative Documentary Process
• 17 Rubbishing Counterpoint: An Interview with Johanes (Mo’ong) Santoso Pribadi on Tupaia’s Funeral Music in Batavia
• 18 Savaging the Sonic: Tupaia, Indigeneity and Commemorative Dissonance
• References
• Index
• Plates
• Copyright