A HIDE-BOUND BOOK, the title page inscribed: A Collection of Various Specimens of Cloth etc., Obtained in the Three Voyages of Capt. Cook 1768 to 1779, containing fifty-nine samples of patterned and plain tapa cloth, three twisted or plaited lengths of fibre, a string of small shells and a small group of feathers, each mounted on a page and inscribed below with the possible place of origin

THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE SIR SIDNEY NOLAN, O.M., A.C., C.B.E.

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A HIDE-BOUND BOOK, the title page inscribed: A Collection of Various Specimens of Cloth etc., Obtained in the Three Voyages of Capt. Cook 1768 to 1779, containing fifty-nine samples of patterned and plain tapa cloth, three twisted or plaited lengths of fibre, a string of small shells and a small group of feathers, each mounted on a page and inscribed below with the possible place of origin

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The date of compilation of this album is uncertain though the script and the place names certainly suggest an eighteenth or early nineteenth century date. A newspaper cutting inserted in the front of the book indicates that the book was loaned for an exhibition in Bilston, West Midlands, England.

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