For the past few days I have been uploading digital images of Cook-voyage objects into the Museum's digital image archive. The archive is the result of a recent project, 'Pictures worth a thousand words', funded by the
Esme Fairburn Foundation. This project aimed to scan and digitise our collection of historical images, and to create systems for managing the digital images generated by various museum departments.
Some of the images I've been uploading will soon be available on the
Pitt Rivers online databases, but many more will be part of the new Cook-voyage collection website which will be an outcome of this project.
Here are some of those images:
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| 1866.1.1404 Belt, Tonga. Detail of construction |
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| 1886.1.1438 Club, Tonga. Detail of carved decoration |
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| 1886.1.1340 Headdress, Marquesas Islands. Detail of reverse, showing construction techniques |
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| 1887.1.392 Breastplate, Tahiti |
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| 1886.1.1568 Teeth ornament, New Zealand. Microscope image showing red ochre |
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| 1886.1.1550 Barkcloth beater, Tahiti, showing fragments of barkcloth in grooves |
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| 1886.1.1571 Necklace, Tonga. Detail of carved bird ornament |
