Jeremy Coote
Biographic Data
| ID | 130434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Coote |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Coote |
| SIGNATURE | COOTE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pitt Rivers Museum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
'Marvels Of Everyday Vision'
The current idea that we look lazily into the world only as far as our practical needs demand it while the artist removes this veil of habits scarcely does justice to the marvels of everyday vision.
Sacred to Cook’s Immortal Name
There are hundreds of impressions of engravings relating to the person, life and voyages of Captain Cook in collections around the world. Many, however, are disassociated from the original contexts of their publication and are thus of limited historical use. Beginning with a single, radically trimmed impression in the Ashmolean Museum, a detailed account is provided of one particular engraving. It is shown that it was originally published as a fr…
Captain Cook, Mrs Taylor and a Mi’kmaw quillwork box
In 1963 a small box bearing an inscription stating that it had been ‘brought from Otaheite by Captn. Cook and presented by him to Mrs. Taylor Circus Bath’ was donated to the National Maritime Museum in London. That the box is actually an example of Mi’kmaw work from Nova Scotia has led previous scholars to claim that the famous navigator James Cook (1728–1779) made a collection of artefacts while he was on Royal Navy duty in Atlantic Canada in th…
Museum, Magic, Memory
Journal Article Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague Get access Julie Adams, Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague. Pacific Presences 8. Leiden, Sidestone Press, 2021. isbn978-90-8890-636-7 (hardback), 978-90-8890-635-0 (paperback). 316 pp., 85 col. illus., 50 b. & w. illus. €160 (hardback), €55 (paperback), or free to read and download online. Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote UK [email protected] Search for other works…
Objects as Insights
Journal Article Objects as Insights: R. H. Codrington’s ethnographic collections from Melanesia Get access Nick Stanley, Objects as Insights: R. H. Codrington’s ethnographic collections from Melanesia. British Museum Research Publication 235. London, British Museum Press, 2021. isbn978-0861-5923-57. vi + 103 pp., 65 col. illus., 14 b. & w. illus. £25 or free online Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote UK [email protected] Search for other works by this…
Georg Forster
Following a four-hour visit to the British Museum, Prince Leopold Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau and his wife, Louise Henriette Wilhelmine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, spent the afternoon of Monday 2 October 1775 with Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Georg Forster at their rooms in Percy Street, off Tottenham Court Road. It was only two months since the Forsters had arrived back in London after a three-year-long voyage aboard hms Resolution as th…
William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum
This hefty book was published to accompany the special exhibition of the same name held at the Hunterian in Glasgow in 2018 and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven in 2019. Taken together, the exhibition and accompanying volume may be regarded as the culmination of more than a decade’s programme of workshops, exhibitions, conferences and publications inspired by and commemorating the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the Hunterian i…
The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795–1855
Journal Article The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795–1855: Maritime encounters and British Museum collections Get access Daniel Simpson, The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795–1855: Maritime encounters and British Museum collections. Palgrave Studies in Pacific History. Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. isbn978-3-030-60096-9 (e-book: isbn978-3-030-60097-6). 328 pp., 10 col. illus., 3 b. & w. illus., 1 table. £79.99 (e-boo…
Collecting in the South Sea
Ever since the 1760s, European visitors to the South Seas have acquired objects made by Pacific Islanders and taken them away. With motives ranging from philosophical curiosity to avarice, explorers, naval officers, traders, whalers, missionaries, colonial officials, anthropologists, archaeologists, collectors and tourists have traded for, received as gifts, purchased, looted and confiscated objects, removing them from their original contexts of …
Galleries of Maoriland
Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, collectors and the Māori world, 1880–1910 Roger Blackley, Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, collectors and the Māori world, 1880–1910. Auckland, Auckland University Press, 2018. isbn 978-1-86940-935-7. 312 pp., 146 col. illus. nz$75. Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 32, Issue 2, Jul…
Collecting and Provenance
Collecting and Provenance: A multidisciplinary approach Jane C. Milosch and Nick Pearce (eds.), Collecting and Provenance: A multidisciplinary approach. Lanham, ma, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. isbn 978-1-5381-2757-5. xxi + 428 pp., 103 b. & w. illus. $75. Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 32, Issue 2, July 2020, Pa…
Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa
African Curiosities’ from the voyage of HMS Avon, 1845–1846
Thanks to the detailed nature of the sketches accompanying an article published in the Illustrated London News in 1846, it has proved possible recently to trace the history of some objects in the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum to the voyage of HMS Avon (Commander Henry Mangles Denham) to the coast of West Africa in 1845–6. Drawing on archival materials that survive at the Pitt Rivers Museum, the British Museum, the National Archives, a…
Origins of the Afro Comb
The Fitzwilliam is the University of Cambridge's museum of art and antiquities, with thirty-four galleries devoted to Classical, Western, and Oriental art. It is not a place visitors expect to find rooms filled with African combs. During the summer of 2013, however, its Mellon and Octagon galleries were devoted to “Origins of the Afro Comb: 6,000 Years of Culture, Politics and Identity.” Curated by Senior Assistant Keeper of Antiquities Sally-Ann…
Joseph Porter’s ‘Treasury of Antiquities and Curiosities’ in Boston, Lincolnshire
Journal Article Joseph Porter’s ‘Treasury of Antiquities and Curiosities’ in Boston, Lincolnshire: the collection as described by Nathaniel, Sophia, and Julian Hawthorne, 1857 Get access Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 29, Issue 1, 1 March 2017, Pages 129–141, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhw008 Published: 26 February 2016
A Text-Book Textile at the Pitt Rivers Museum
May 01 2015 A Text-Book Textile at the Pitt Rivers Museum: Historiographical Notes on a Kongo Cushion-Cover, its Canonical Status, Dating, and Provenance Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote is Curator and Joint Head of Collections at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. During the 1980s his research was focused on the aesthetic traditions of South Sudan and East Africa. Since joining the staff of the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1994, his r…
General Pitt-Rivers and the Art of Benin
June 01 2015 General Pitt-Rivers and the Art of Benin Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote is Curator and Joint Head of Collections at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote is Curator and Joint Head of Collections at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. [email protected]…
South of the River
May 01 2015 South of the River Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote is Curator and Joint Head of Collections at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote is Curator and Joint Head of Collections at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. [email protected] Online ISSN: 1937-2108…
Notes on a Marquesan tiki-headed ke‘a tuki popoi (breadfruit pounder) in the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers museum
Until now a tiki-headed ke`a tuki popoi (Marquesan breadfruit pounder) in the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has been thought to be the earliest attested example to have been collected, in 1874. It is shown that a tiki-headed ke`a tuki popoi in the founding collection of the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum was exhibited in London on 25 January 1870, making it the earliest attested ex…
Holophusicon
Journal Article Holophusicon: The Leverian Museum – An Eighteenth-Century English Institution of Science, Curiosity, and Art Get access Adrienne L. KaepplerHolophusicon: The Leverian Museum – An Eighteenth-Century English Institution of Science, Curiosity, and Art. Altenstadt, ZKF Publishers, 2011. isbn978-3-9811620-4-2. 308 pp., 846 col. illus., 137 b. & w. illus. €39.90. Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote *[email protected] Search for other work…
A Tongan Tapua in the Pitt Rivers Museum
In a recent account, in the Journal of the Polynesian Society, of Tongan tapua-"polished ivory shrines"-Fergus Clunie refers to an example in the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum as being "tenuously provenanced" to Cook's voyages. A detailed discussion of the tapua's documentation is provided to demonstrate how this "tenuous" provenance has no basis in fact, before other possible histories are considered
The rediscovery of a Society Islands Tamau, or headdress of human hair, in the “Cook-Voyage” Forster Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum—and a possible provenance
In July 2010, a Society Islands tamau, or headdress of human hair, collected on James Cook's second famous Pacific voyage of 1772-74, which had been missing since 1776, was "rediscovered" at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. A report of its rediscovery is followed by a technical description, an account of its conservation, and a partly speculative discussion of its history and provenance
Africa
Africa
Africa and the Anthropologist
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Anthropology, art, and aesthetics
This collection of essays on anthropological approaches to art and aesthetics is the first in its field to be published for some time. In recent years a number of new galleries of non-Western art have been opened, many exhibitions of non-Western art held, and new courses in the anthropology of art established. This collection is both part of and complements these developments, contributing to the general resurgence of interest in what has been un…
Anthropology, Art and Aesthetics
I. THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ART II. OBJECTS AND INTERPRETATIONS III. TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS IV. THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF AESTHETICS
The rediscovery of a Society Islands Tamau, or headdress of human hair, in the “Cook-Voyage” Forster Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum—and a possible provenance
In July 2010, a Society Islands tamau, or headdress of human hair, collected on James Cook's second famous Pacific voyage of 1772-74, which had been missing since 1776, was "rediscovered" at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. A report of its rediscovery is followed by a technical description, an account of its conservation, and a partly speculative discussion of its history and provenance
The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795–1855
Journal Article The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795–1855: Maritime encounters and British Museum collections Get access Daniel Simpson, The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795–1855: Maritime encounters and British Museum collections. Palgrave Studies in Pacific History. Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. isbn978-3-030-60096-9 (e-book: isbn978-3-030-60097-6). 328 pp., 10 col. illus., 3 b. & w. illus., 1 table. £79.99 (e-boo…
A Tongan Tapua in the Pitt Rivers Museum
In a recent account, in the Journal of the Polynesian Society, of Tongan tapua-"polished ivory shrines"-Fergus Clunie refers to an example in the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum as being "tenuously provenanced" to Cook's voyages. A detailed discussion of the tapua's documentation is provided to demonstrate how this "tenuous" provenance has no basis in fact, before other possible histories are considered
Images of Benin at the Pitt Rivers Museum
L'A. presente l'inventaire des archives visuelles, conservees au Musee Pitt Rivers (Oxford), relatives a la mise en place des collections britanniques d'objets provenant de la ville de Benin (Nigeria) a la suite de l'expedition punitive coloniale de 1897. L'A. s'est interesse principalement a des croquis (lavis, gouaches) et a des photographies prises a cette periode et s'est interroge sur la dissemination mondiale des informations concernant l'a…
Imagery and Creativity
‘Marvels of Everyday Vision’
This essay is written out of a conviction that progress in the anthropological study of visual aesthetics has been hampered by an undue concentration on art and art objects. The cattle-keeping Nilotes of the Southern Sudan make no art objects and have no traditions of visual art, yet it would be absurd to claim that they have no visual aesthetic. In such a case as this, the analyst is forced to attend to areas of life to which everyday concepts o…
Title Pages
Anthropology Art and Aesthetics
This collection of essays on anthropological approaches to art and aesthetics is the first in its field to be published for some time. In recent years a number of new galleries of non-Western art have been opened, many exhibitions of non-Western art held, and new courses in the anthropology of art established. This collection is both part of and complements these developments, contributing to the general resurgence of interest in what has been un…
Anthropology, art, and aesthetics
This collection of essays on anthropological approaches to art and aesthetics is the first in its field to be published for some time. In recent years a number of new galleries of non-Western art have been opened, many exhibitions of non-Western art held, and new courses in the anthropology of art established. This collection is both part of and complements these developments, contributing to the general resurgence of interest in what has been un…
Indiscipline and Indigestion
Imagery and Creativity
Anthropology, Art and Aesthetics
I. THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ART II. OBJECTS AND INTERPRETATIONS III. TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS IV. THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF AESTHETICS
Getting the Price Right
Images of Benin at the Pitt Rivers Museum
L'A. presente l'inventaire des archives visuelles, conservees au Musee Pitt Rivers (Oxford), relatives a la mise en place des collections britanniques d'objets provenant de la ville de Benin (Nigeria) a la suite de l'expedition punitive coloniale de 1897. L'A. s'est interesse principalement a des croquis (lavis, gouaches) et a des photographies prises a cette periode et s'est interroge sur la dissemination mondiale des informations concernant l'a…
African Art
Africa and the Anthropologist
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Africa and the Anthropologist
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Africa
Africa
The rediscovery of a Society Islands Tamau, or headdress of human hair, in the “Cook-Voyage” Forster Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum—and a possible provenance
In July 2010, a Society Islands tamau, or headdress of human hair, collected on James Cook's second famous Pacific voyage of 1772-74, which had been missing since 1776, was "rediscovered" at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. A report of its rediscovery is followed by a technical description, an account of its conservation, and a partly speculative discussion of its history and provenance
Holophusicon
Journal Article Holophusicon: The Leverian Museum – An Eighteenth-Century English Institution of Science, Curiosity, and Art Get access Adrienne L. KaepplerHolophusicon: The Leverian Museum – An Eighteenth-Century English Institution of Science, Curiosity, and Art. Altenstadt, ZKF Publishers, 2011. isbn978-3-9811620-4-2. 308 pp., 846 col. illus., 137 b. & w. illus. €39.90. Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote *[email protected] Search for other work…
A Tongan Tapua in the Pitt Rivers Museum
In a recent account, in the Journal of the Polynesian Society, of Tongan tapua-"polished ivory shrines"-Fergus Clunie refers to an example in the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum as being "tenuously provenanced" to Cook's voyages. A detailed discussion of the tapua's documentation is provided to demonstrate how this "tenuous" provenance has no basis in fact, before other possible histories are considered
A Text-Book Textile at the Pitt Rivers Museum
May 01 2015 A Text-Book Textile at the Pitt Rivers Museum: Historiographical Notes on a Kongo Cushion-Cover, its Canonical Status, Dating, and Provenance Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote is Curator and Joint Head of Collections at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. During the 1980s his research was focused on the aesthetic traditions of South Sudan and East Africa. Since joining the staff of the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1994, his r…
General Pitt-Rivers and the Art of Benin
June 01 2015 General Pitt-Rivers and the Art of Benin Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote is Curator and Joint Head of Collections at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote is Curator and Joint Head of Collections at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. [email protected]…
South of the River
May 01 2015 South of the River Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote is Curator and Joint Head of Collections at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote is Curator and Joint Head of Collections at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. [email protected] Online ISSN: 1937-2108…
Notes on a Marquesan tiki-headed ke‘a tuki popoi (breadfruit pounder) in the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers museum
Until now a tiki-headed ke`a tuki popoi (Marquesan breadfruit pounder) in the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has been thought to be the earliest attested example to have been collected, in 1874. It is shown that a tiki-headed ke`a tuki popoi in the founding collection of the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum was exhibited in London on 25 January 1870, making it the earliest attested ex…
Joseph Porter’s ‘Treasury of Antiquities and Curiosities’ in Boston, Lincolnshire
Journal Article Joseph Porter’s ‘Treasury of Antiquities and Curiosities’ in Boston, Lincolnshire: the collection as described by Nathaniel, Sophia, and Julian Hawthorne, 1857 Get access Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 29, Issue 1, 1 March 2017, Pages 129–141, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhw008 Published: 26 February 2016
Origins of the Afro Comb
The Fitzwilliam is the University of Cambridge's museum of art and antiquities, with thirty-four galleries devoted to Classical, Western, and Oriental art. It is not a place visitors expect to find rooms filled with African combs. During the summer of 2013, however, its Mellon and Octagon galleries were devoted to “Origins of the Afro Comb: 6,000 Years of Culture, Politics and Identity.” Curated by Senior Assistant Keeper of Antiquities Sally-Ann…
African Curiosities’ from the voyage of HMS Avon, 1845–1846
Thanks to the detailed nature of the sketches accompanying an article published in the Illustrated London News in 1846, it has proved possible recently to trace the history of some objects in the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum to the voyage of HMS Avon (Commander Henry Mangles Denham) to the coast of West Africa in 1845–6. Drawing on archival materials that survive at the Pitt Rivers Museum, the British Museum, the National Archives, a…
Galleries of Maoriland
Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, collectors and the Māori world, 1880–1910 Roger Blackley, Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, collectors and the Māori world, 1880–1910. Auckland, Auckland University Press, 2018. isbn 978-1-86940-935-7. 312 pp., 146 col. illus. nz$75. Jeremy Coote Jeremy Coote [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 32, Issue 2, Jul…
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