Ein "Ancestor Panel" der Maoris von der ersten Südsee-Reise (1768 -1771) James Cooks in der Ethnographischen Sammlung der Universität Tübingen entdeckt
Baessler-Archiv XLVI.1998:429-443
An "ancestor panel" of the Maoris from James Cook"s first trip to the South Seas (1768-1771), discovered in the ethnographic collection at the University of Tübingen
##In the year 1771, when he returned from Captain Cook"s first voyage to the South Seas (1768 - 1771) in which he had participated as an independent scholar, Sir Joseph Banks commissioned the artist John Frederick Miller to draw a Maori ancestor panel that had been brought from New Zealand to England during this voyage. The artist himself did not take part in the expedition, but only worked on commission for Banks in England. After the completion of this drawing, which is preserved in the Manuscript Department of the British Library, the ancestor panel itself was presumed to be lost. The author of the article furnishes proof that a "carving of the Maori", which was donated in 1937 by Emma von Luschan of Millstatt in Austria to the Ethnographical Collection of Tübingen University, is identical with the ancestor panel drawn by John Frederick Miller in 1771. The author also suggests that it is most likely that the carving reached Millstatt in Austria because Emma von Luschan"s father, the well-known geographer Ferdinand von Hochsteuer, bought it in England sometime between 1860 and 1880, and included it in his private ethnographical collection, which his daughter, Emma von Luschan, inherited.##
Keywords: ancestor panel of Maoris, Maori ancestor panel, Luschan, E. von, Hochsteuer, F. von, Miller, J.F., Cook, J., Banks, J.
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