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...Vokerkunde Munich. This museum had its origins 300 years ago and moved into its present premises in 1925. During that time, it acquired extensive collections from around the world and, in particular, from the Pacific. The museum opened in 1926 with three exhibition hails devoted to collections from the South Seas. There were subsequent exhibitions in 1952, 1962 and 1970 but little Pacific material has been displayed since, until this exhibition curated by Michaela Appel.
The catalogue includes brief summary of collectors and collections (p.176). The museum is fortunate to have obtained Polynesian material from the estate of Sir Joseph Banks in 1825. It is therefore a reasonable assumption that most of these objects were collected during the voyages of Captain James Cook. These include a beautiful Hawai'ian fan (peahi nui), a Hawai'ian feather helmet (mahiole), a powerful male fishing deity from Rarotonga (cf. Barrow, T. 1972. Art and Life in Polynesia. Wellington: AH & AW Reed, Plates 203, 208, 212) and a remarkable female deity, represented with whole-body tattooing, from Aitutaki. According to Barrow (ibid., caption to Plate 219) Aitutaki was not discovered until a decade after Cook's death, and by William Bligh, so this piece, at least, was not from the Cook voyages. The tattoo patterns are comparable to those on a carving in the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow (ibid., Plate 218).
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