{"product_id":"2026200014626-secondhand-in-cooks-wake-tapa-treasures-from-the-pacific","title":"In Cook's Wake: Tapa Treasures From The Pacific","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the storied voyages of Captain James Cook across the vast Pacific Ocean emerges a remarkable cultural legacy — the extraordinary art of tapa cloth, woven into the very fabric of island civilisations. In Cook's Wake: Tapa Treasures from the Pacific chronicles the rich tradition of this beaten-bark textile, tracing its origins, ceremonial significance, and astonishing variety of patterns across Polynesian, Melanesian, and Micronesian cultures, drawing on the remarkable collection held by the National Library of Australia.\n\nStructured as a scholarly yet deeply accessible anthology of essays, this volume presents contributions from Nat Williams, Erica Dyer, and Crispin Howarth, each illuminating a distinct facet of the tapa tradition — from the entrepreneurial collecting endeavours of Alexander Shaw to the Hawaiian kapa cloth held in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection. Published by NLA Publishing, this is a work of both cultural reverence and art-historical rigour, one that asks the reader to reconsider what these intricate, painted cloths — described by Cook's own officers as bespeaking infinite taste and fancy — reveal about the peoples who created them, and about the Western gaze that sought to possess them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269336506587,"sku":"2026200014626-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/49da8d1a-a0be-4e34-a3a0-62ea0ae2e664.png?v=1788998364","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014626-secondhand-in-cooks-wake-tapa-treasures-from-the-pacific","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}