An exciting trip to Whitby and Scarborough museums
In October 2004, the Sainsbury Research Unit and the School of Art History arranged a trip to the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, the Whitby Museum and the Rotunda Museum of Archaeology and Local History at Scarborough.Postgraduate students, researchers and staff met the curators of some exhibitions, learning more about their design and history. Some Polynesian specialists from the SRU and elsewhere were able to examine Whitby Museum's Polynesian objects in detail.
Museum specialists discuss the meanings of the early Polynesian objects held in the stores of Whitby Museum. From left to right: Dr Steven Hooper (Director of the Polynesian Project), Les Jessop (Keeper of Biology, Tyne and Wear Museums), and Sue Boyce (Curator of Whitby Museum).
Fine New Zealand cloak with Taniko - design borders. The picture is ETH 414 and was donated by Capt JR Potter (Whitby) on 21/7/1835. The minute book record states "large Mantel or Cloak and cap of NZ chief Tarbula of Otago, one of the South Islands of New Zealand.