Footprints in the sand: Banks' Maori collection, Cook's first voyage 1768-1771
- Author
- Paul Tapsell, Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand
- Published
- Tue 16 Sep 2008
- Episode Link
- https://www.nma.gov.au/audio/captain-james-cook-series/footprints-in-the-sand-banks-maori-collection,-cooks-first-voyage-1768-1771
Date recorded: 28 July 2006.
Historian Paul Tapsell discusses how artefacts in Joseph Banks' collection from Captain James Cook's first voyage to the Pacific can be viewed as 'taonga', or Maori treasured possessions.
