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| Tahitian cylindrical drum |
While working on this drum from Tahiti (1886.1.1518) I noticed in the documentation (available on the Pitt Rivers online database) that this and several other objects in the Cook-voyage collections had been sent to the International Colonial and Export Trade Exhibition of 1883 in Amsterdam, for which the Ashmolean (the collections were housed there before transfer to the newly opened Pitt Rivers in 1886) won a 'diploma of a silver medal, and a catalogue.' We also learn that the objects 'were all returned safe and without injury.'
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| A view of the exhibition |
The exhibition was held in the summer of 1883, and took place in the grounds behind the Rijksmuseum, now the 'Museumplein'.
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| View of the exhibition grounds |
24 nations took part, as can be seen in the map of the fairground below.
Over a million tickets were sold for the exhibition by the time it closed in November 1883.
For more information on the exhibition, see http://parallel.park.org/Netherlands/pavilions/world_expositions/index_2.htm
