June 28, 2002

Collected Wisdom

By PETER MONAGHAN

A new wave of scholarship examines the centuries-old 'mental landscape' of collectors

Captain James Cook, as he sailed about the Pacific in the late 1700s,

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was so eager a collector that mocking Tongans offered him rocks and twigs. One local wit even tried to sell him a turd on a

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