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). This book revisits the National Maritime Museum’s material collections brought back from the voyage, paying particular attention to objects, journals, drawings, maps, cloth and clothes, and the attending narratives that framed Britain’s kaleidoscopic engagement with Pacific peoples. Bringing together artists, scholars, historians, theorists, and tailors, this book presents a cross-cultural conversation that breathes new life into the concepts of acquired and curated artefacts and taonga 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. Chapters cover Tupai
