Alexander Shaw’s “cloth book”: The rare assembly of actual pieces of Hawaiian &Tahitian native cloth collected by sailors on Cook’s third voyage
The “book” of 18th-century tapa cloth collected in the Pacific [COOK: THIRD VOYAGE] SHAW, Alexander. A Catalogue of the Different Specimens of Cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the Southern Hemisphere; with a Particular Account of the Manner of the Manufacturing the same in the various Islands of the South Seas; partly extracted from Mr. Anderson and Reinhold Forster’s Observations, Hordern House Occasional Papers