Banks Island.
http://localhistory.vpl.ca/link/cni42165
- Author
- Wells, R.E.
- Date
- Autumn 2006
- Geographic Location
- British Columbia - Banks Island
- Material Type
- newspaper article
- Abstract
- Discusses the patu, a Maori weapon so admired by Sir Joseph Banks that he had forty bronze replicas made and engraved with his family crest so that he could use them as speical trade items for Captain Cook's second voyage .
- Author
- Wells, R.E.
- Role
- Author
- Date
- Autumn 2006
- Person
- Banks, Joseph
- Colnett, James, 1755?-1806
- Cook, James, 1728-1779
- Meares, John
- Menzies, Archibald, fl. 1763
- Corporation
- King George Sound Company
- Geographic Location
- British Columbia - Banks Island
- Material Type
- newspaper article
- Physical Description
- coats of arms
- illustrations
- maps
- Source Title
- British Columbia History
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 2-3
- Abstract
- Discusses the patu, a Maori weapon so admired by Sir Joseph Banks that he had forty bronze replicas made and engraved with his family crest so that he could use them as speical trade items for Captain Cook's second voyage .