How do these two texts add complexity to our understanding

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Question-based on the readings: Exotic possessions: Polynesians and their eighteenth-century collecting by Jenny Newell & George Vason, Life of the late George Vason of Nottingham: one of the troops of missionaries first sent to the South Sea Islands by the London Missionary Society in the ship Duff, Captain Wilson, 1796, with a preliminary essay on the South Sea Islands by James Orange

Question 1. How do these two texts add complexity to our understanding of Polynesian material culture? How does it help to know how tapa were made and looked like, and how objects were used? Why is it important to look carefully at both primary source material and later interpretive sources when discussing art and culture?

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