James Cook Collection

cook2em.jpegI highly recommend the James Cook Collection at the Museum of Ethnology Vienna.

On Cook’s search for the north-west passage he explored the north-west coast of North America for several months in 1778. The objects he collected during his stay on land give information about the native cultures in the first phase of their ‘contact’ with Europeans.

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