Pacific Presences (volume 2)

Lucie Carreau is a researcher based at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA), University of Cambridge. Educated at the École du Louvre (Paris) and Sainsbury Research Unit (Norwich), her work focuses on the history of collecting and collections in the19th century and early 20th century and the role of objects in mediating relationships between Pacific Islanders and European visitors.She previously worked as a researcher on the ‘Artefacts of Encounter’ project (2010-2011, ESRC) and ‘Fijian art’ project (2011-2014, AHRC) at MAA, where she co-curated the exhibition Chiefs & Governors: Art and Power in Fiji (2013-2014). Dr. Alison Clark is a Research Associate at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. She currently works on the ERC funded Pacific Presences project. Both her masters (2007) and PhD (2013) theses on the Indigenous Australian collections of the British Museum drew on the work of Anthony Forge. Her current research is focused on Kiribati, where she is interested in the contemporary resonance of historic museum collections, and the revival of certain cultural practices. She has previously worked on projects at the British Museum, and the October Gallery in London.Key publications:2014, ‘What Happens Next? Sustaining Relationships Beyond the Life of a Research Project’, Journal of Museum Ethnography, No.27.2013, ‘Eliciting a History, Reflections on a Photograph Album’, in Adams, Burt, Bonshek, Bolton and Thomas (eds.) Melanesia Art and Encounter 2013 pp.64-66. Alana Jelinek is a practising artist, exhibiting nationally and internationally for over 25 years. She works in a wide range of media, including participatory, film, sound, novel-writing and painting. From 2009 until 2017 she worked with the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, first as Arts and Humanities Research Fellow (2009-2014) and then as Senior Researcher for Pacific Presences (2013-2018), making site-specific work and responding to the collections and their histories in order to explore legacies of colonialism.She has written on art for the Journal of Social Anthropology, Ethnos and the International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, and her monograph ‘This is Not Art’ (2013) theorises the discipline of art from the perspective gained through her years with the Museum. She is currently Fellow of Art and Public Engagement with the University of Hertfordshire. Erna Lilje pursues the idea that collections can reveal more about the people who made and used the artefacts they hold by bringing to bear an interdisciplinary approach that combines a close examination of these with field-based research. She believes that the most quotidian objects can offer insights into the lives of those people least represented in historical sources, such as women. Erna’s interest in the physicality of artefacts, and the processes used to make them, stems from her art practice and her focus on Papua New Guinea has foundations in her own heritage. Prof. Dr. Nicholas Thomas was an undergraduate at the Australian National University from 1979 to 1982; his BA (Honours) thesis, on Fijian politics, was supervised by Anthony Forge. He visited the Pacific first in 1984 to undertake doctoral research in the Marquesas Islands and has since written extensively on exploration and cross-cultural encounters and on art histories in the Pacific. He has been Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge since 2006.

• Preface Introduction Part one: Materialities 1. Fibre skirts: continuity and changeErna Lilje 2. Shell money and context in Western Island MelanesiaKatherine Szabo 3. Aitutaki patterns or listening to the voices of the Ancestors: research on Aitutaki ta’unga in European MuseumsMichaela Appel and Ngaa Kitai Taria Pureariki 4. Unpacking cosmologies: frigate bird and turtle shell headdresses in NauruMaia Nuku 5. Reaching across the Ocean’: Barkcloth in Oceania and beyondAnna-Karina Hermkens 6. ‘U’u: an unfinished inquiry into the history and adornment of Marquesan clubsNicholas Thomas Part two: Collection histories and exhibitions 7. Haphazard Histories: tracing Kanak collections in UK museumsJulie Adams 8. Inaccuracies, inconsistencies and implications: researching Kiribati coconut fibre armour in UK collectionsPolly Bence 9. From Russia with love: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay’s Pacific collectionsElena Govor 10. Collecting procedure unknown: contextualising the Max Biermann collection in the Museum Fünf Kontinente in MunichHilke Thode-Arora 11. Made to measure: photographs from the Templeton Crocker expeditionLucie Carreau 12. German women collectors in the Pacific: Elizabeth Krämer-Bannow and Antonie BrandeisAmiria Salmond 13. The illustration of culture: work on paper in the art history of OceanaNicholas Thomas 14. Two Germanies: ethnographic museums, (post)colonial exhibitions, and the ‘cold odyssey’ of Pacific Objects between East and WestPhilipp Schorch 15. Museum Dreams: the rise and fall of a ‘Port-Vila MuseumPeter Brunt Part three: Legacies of Empire 16. Kings, Rangatira and relationships: the enduring meanings of ‘treasure’ exchanges between Māori and Europeans in 1830s WhangaroaDeidre Brown 17. An early Tongan ngatu tahina in SwedenNicholas Thomas 18. Wilful amnesia? Contemporary Dutch narratives about western New GuineaFanny Wonu Veys 19. A glimmering presence: the unheard Melanesian voices of St Barnabas Memorial Chapel, Norfolk IslandLucie Carreau 20. The Titikaveka barkcloth: a preliminary accountNicholas Thomas 21. ‘The woman who walks’: Lucy Evelyn Cheesman, her collecting and contacts in western New GuineaKatharina Haslwanter 17. History and Cultural Identity: commemorating the arrival of the British in KiribatiAlison Clark 23. Makereti and the Pitt Rivers Museum, 1921–1930, and beyondNgahuia Te Awekotuku and Jeremy Coote Part four: Contemporary activations 24. ARCHIVES Te Wāhi PounamuAreta Wilkinson and Mark Adams 25. Hoe Whakairo: painted paddles from New ZealandSteve Gibbs, Billie Lythberg and Amiria Salmond 26. Toi Hauiti and Hinematioro: a Māori ancestor in a German castleWayne Ngata, Billie Lythberg and Amiria Salmond 27. Reinvigorating the study of Micronesain objects in European museums: collections from Pohnpei and Kosrae, Federated States of MicronesiaHelen A. Alderson 28. Knowing and not knowingAlana Jelinek 29. InterviewKaetaeta Watson, Chris Charteris, Lizzy Leckie and Alison Clark 30. Piecing together the past: reflections on replicating and ancestral tiputa with contemporary fabricsPauline Reynolds 31. InterviewDairi Arua and Erna Lilje 32. ‘In Process’Alana Jelinek 33. Backhand and full tusks: museology and the musedRosanna Raymond EpilogueEndnotesSelect bibliographyContributors’ BiographiesAcknowledgementsIndex