@article{1384464,
      recid = {1384464},
      author = {Clark, Alison and Haddow, Eve, and Wright, Christopher},
      title = {Resonant histories : Pacific artefacts and the voyages of  HMS Royalist 1890-1893 /},
      pages = {1 online resource (276 pages) :},
      abstract = {This book explores a complex relational assemblage, a  collection of 1481 Pacific artefacts brought together by  Captain Edward Henry Meggs Davis, during the three voyages  of HMS Royalist between 1890-1893. The collection is  indicative not just of a period of colonial collecting in  the Pacific, but also the development of ethnographic  collections in the UK and Europe. This period of history  remains present in the social and cultural lives of many  Pacific Islanders today. Using the collections as a  starting point the book is divided into two parts. The  first provides the historical background to the three  voyages of HMS Royalist, discussing each voyage, its aims  and outcomes, and the role that Davis played within this.  Davis' motivations to collect and the various means of  collecting that he employed are then explored within this  historical context. Finally the first part considers what  happened to the collection once it was sent from the  Pacific to England, where and how it was sold, and how the  collection was a part of and subject to the networks of  museums, and private collectors in the UK and Europe during  the end of the 19th century beginning of the 20th century.  It offers a detailed view of the contents and development  of the collection, and what the collection can tell us  about British ethnographic collecting at the end of the  nineteenth century. The second part of the book explores  the traces left by the ship amongst the Pacific Islands  communities it visited. Focusing on three Pacific Islands-  Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Kiribati- the chapters in this  section interrogate the contemporary relevance of this  period of colonial history for Islanders today, exploring  current social, political and environmental issues. -- Back  cover.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1384464},
}