Museum Collections

• American Museum of Natural History
  226 objects mentioning Cook Islands includong fishhooks, mats, ceremonial adzes, shell fragments, weavings from early and mid 20th century.
  
  
• Australian Museum
  127 objects mentioning Cook Islands.
  
  
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
  818 objects mentioning Cook Islands including tools, clothing, barkcloth, mats, basketry. - Direct access to the Cook Islands collection
  
  
• British Museum
  377 items mentioning Cook Islands including 52 prints and photographic prints. - Direct access to the Cook Islands collection
  
  
• Burke Museum
  61 objects from Cook Islands waist bands, heads bands, basketry, etc.. - Direct access to the Cook Islands collection
  
  
• Horniman Museum & Garden
  10 obects from Cook Islands including adzes and fish hooks.
  
  
• Museo Nacional de Antropologia (Madrid)
  2 records mentioning Cook Islands: 1 decorated wooden bowl , 1 canoe model.
  
  
• Museum Volkenkunde Leiden
  45 items mentioning Cook Islands including spears, ceremonial adzes, .
  
  
• Museum of Anthropology
  40 objects mentioning Cook Islands including bowls, paddles, staffs, fish hooks. - Direct access to the Cook Islands collection
  
  
• Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
  102 objects mentioning Cook Islands, mostly adzes and staffs, 45 photographic and negative printsand 2 archival documents.
  
  
• Musée Royal de L'Afrique centrale, Tervuren
  5 records mentioning Cook Islands including ceremonial axe and paddles.
  
  
• Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève
  14 objects from Cook Islands including ceremonial adze and model canoes. - Direct access to the Cook Islands collection
  
  
• Musée du quai Branly
  73 items mentioning Cook Islands.
  
  
• National Museum Australia
  16 objects mentioning Cook Islands mentioning including 20th century necklaces and woodcarvings. - Direct access to the Cook Islands collection
  
  
• National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
  136 records mentioing Cook islands including slit drums, basketry, garments, fish hooks.
  
  
• Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
  74 items mentioning Cook Islands including wooden figures, necklaces, ornaments and photographic prints. - Direct access to the Cook Islands collection
  
  
• Penn Museum
  242 items mentioning Cook Islands including ceremonial adzes and paddles.
  
  
• Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  3 objects from Cook Islands including mats and adze.. - Direct access to the Cook Islands collection
  
  
• Pitt Rivers Museum
  119 items mentioning Cook Islands.
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution Washington
  114 objects mentioning Cook Islands including ceremonial adzes, shell ornaments, sinnet cord, etc... - Direct access to the Cook Islands collection
  
  
• Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
  2 model canoes mentioning Cook Inseln (Cook Islands).
  
  
• Te Papa Tongarewa
  2048 objects mentioning Cook Islands as a production place including baskets, ceremonial adzes, garments, fans. - Direct access to the Cook Islands collection
  
  
• Tropenmuseum Amsterdam
  24 objects mentioning Cook Islands including paddles, ceremonial adzes, .
  
  
• UCL Museum
  1 ceremonial paddle from Cook Islands.
  
  
• Universitetets Kultuhistoriske Museer, Oslo
  58 records mentioning Cook islands includin mostly ceremonial axes and wooden knives. - Direct access to the Cook Islands collection
  
  
• University of Queensland Anthropology Museum
  21 items mentioning Cook Islands including adzes, hooks, skirts. - Direct access to the Cook Islands collection
  
  
• Världskultur Museerna
  14 records mentioning Cook Islands inclduing ceremonial adze, clubs, stone implements.
  
  
• Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
  3 objects from Cook Islands: including stone adze and club.