Pacific Encounters: Art & Divinity in Polynesia, 1760–1860

This groundbreaking book celebrates the wonder and excitement of the people and objects encountered in the pioneering voyages of Cook, Wallis, Vancouver, and others in the Pacific during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. More than 270 stunning items of wood, ivory, feathers, and shell are presented together for the first time in the most comprehensive book ever published on Polynesian art.