After the Pandora's partly unsuccessful pursuit of the Bounty mutineers through the Pacific islands in 1791, the ship ran aground on a submerged reef and sank 140km east of Cape York, Queensland. Archaeological excavations revealed that the Pandora crew, in addition to their primary objective, made ethnographic material collections during their voyage, including 25 stone adzes and 5 stone pounders. These collected objects are of particular interest because they have escaped the past processes that might have impacted them had they made the journey back to Europe. In archaeological studies, for instance, these adzes were not included in 20th century typological analyses concerned with understanding the initial human migrations into Oceania, or in more recent geoarchaeological research that seeks to understand Polynesian voyaging, social networks and exchanges. Our paper contextualises the adzes and pounders found on the Pandora to understand the engagement between the European crewmembers and the local people they encountered during their journey through the Pacific Islands. The Pandora crew had participated in the early colonial collecting practices that were foundational to European museum collections and the beginnings of anthropological and archaeological enquiry in the Pacific. On the other hand, the Polynesian participants likely benefited from the engagement in ways that suited their own agendas. We argue that the Pandora objects and similar museum collections as a broader assemblage are important not only for archaeological research, but also because they potentially continue to hold contemporary significance for Polynesian people today and are a legacy that can benefit future generations.

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Pandora 上收集的波利尼西亚石 Adzes 和 Pounders 的过去、现在和未来价值

1791 年，潘多拉号在太平洋岛屿上追击 Bounty 叛变者的部分失败后，这艘船在水下的礁石上搁浅，在昆士兰约克角以东 140 公里处沉没。考古发掘表明，潘多拉号船员除了主要目标外，还在航行期间收集了民族志材料，包括 25 个石锛和 5 个石锤。这些收集到的物品特别有趣，因为它们已经摆脱了过去的过程，如果它们回到欧洲，可能会影响它们。例如，在考古研究中，这些 adzes 没有包括在 20 世纪关于了解人类最初迁移到大洋洲的类型学分析中，或者在最近的旨在了解波利尼西亚航行的地质考古研究中，社交网络和交流。我们的论文将 Pandora 上发现的 adzes 和 pounders 置于背景中，以了解欧洲船员与他们在穿越太平洋岛屿的旅程中遇到的当地人之间的接触。潘多拉船员参与了早期的殖民收藏实践，这些实践是欧洲博物馆收藏的基础，也是太平洋人类学和考古学调查的开端。另一方面，波利尼西亚参与者可能会以适合他们自己议程的方式从参与中受益。我们认为潘多拉的物品和类似的博物馆藏品作为一个更广泛的组合不仅对考古研究很重要，