JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795–1855: Maritime encounters and British Museum collections.

  • Published In: Journal of the History of Collections, 2023, v. 35, n. 1. P. 201 1 of 3

  • Database: America: History and Life with Full Text 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Coote, Jeremy 3 of 3

Abstract

The starting point for Daniel Simpson's new book is the corpus of 135 objects in the collections of the British Museum that were acquired by participants in Royal Navy voyages during encounters with Indigenous Australians between 1795 and 1855. The book has its origins in Simpson's doctoral thesis, which was the product of an ahrc collaborative partnership between Royal Holloway, University of London, and the British Museum. However, the party from I Bathurst i then took from the two canoes in which the Worora party had arrived "a great quantity of objects" of which four, five or six are today identifiable in the collections of the British Museum. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Journal of the History of Collections. 2023/03, Vol. 35, Issue 1, p201
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0954-6650
  • DOI:10.1093/jhc/fhac051
  • Accession Number:162567852
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