The lives of colonial objects / Annabel Cooper, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla.
The lives of colonial objects / Annabel Cooper, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla.
The lives of colonial objects / Annabel Cooper, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla.
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Publisher
Dunedin, New Zealand Otago University Press, 2015.
Call Numbers
H 2016/3644
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English
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Physical content
368 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Intimate immensity: a pūtōrino in the Peabody Essex Museum / Lacy Mackintosh -- Te Haupapa / Pāora Tapsell -- Voyaging taonga: the Kīngi tauihi / Kelvin Day -- William Colenso's composing stick / Sydney J. Shep -- The harpoon's head / David Haines -- 'Keep the head cool, the feet warm, and the b...
A photograph, a feeding bottle and the tragedies of colonial family life / Alison Clarke -- William Speer's album: a scrapbook of colonial travel / Angela Wanhalla -- Retrieved from oblivion? Wiremu Kīngi Te Rangitaake and the photographic object / Ruth Harvey -- 'A sparrow alone upon the house top...
Billies in colonial Australia and New Zealand / Helen Leach -- On holiday, at home: Christchurch's seaside tent 'camps', c. 1892-c.1910 / Kerry Hines -- An Art Nouveau jug collected by Walter Cook / Michael Fitzgerald -- Katherine Mansfield's hei tiki / Jane Stafford -- Te Pai o Ngā Āhua: the visi...
'Badness personified': Nola Pratt's photograph album / Chris Brickell -- Hiding and revealing: the emotional history of a travel diary / Genevieve de Pont -- From polo to poultry: a planter's legacy / Jane McCabe -- Reconfiguring cricket culture in colonial Sāmoa / Safua Akeli -- 'A "lucky" snap':...
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Publisher
Dunedin, New Zealand Otago University Press, 2015.
Date Published
2015.
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Summary
The Lives of Colonial Objects is a sumptuously illustrated and highly readable book about things, and the stories that unfold when we start to investigate them. In this collection of 50 essays the authors, including historians, archivists, curators and Maori scholars, have each chosen an object from New Zealand's colonial past, and their examinatio...
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The lives of colonial objects / Annabel Cooper, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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H 2016/3644
Record Identifier
74VKVKpXB4mZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVKpXB4mZ
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ISBN
9781927322024
1927322022
DDC
306.0993
MMS ID
991024041516902626
