Wednesday, September 23, 2009

James Cook and the exploration of the Pacific

No, I can't have completely forgotten my interest in Pacific history! This link will take you to a museum in Bonn, which is currently holding a major Cook exhibition. The exhibits include a tapa waistcoat which Mrs Cook made for Captain Cook, but which he never got to wear. It usually lives at the State Library of NSW, and is embriodered with Tailor of Glouchester (sp?) seventeenth century style stitching. Beautiful. Wish I could go look!

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