Billingham World Explorers. Celebrating 250 th Anniversary of Captain Wallis discovering Tahiti and Captain Cook expeditions

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1 Billingham World Explorers Celebrating 250 th Anniversary of Captain Wallis discovering Tahiti and Captain Cook expeditions

2 Your visit to Captain Cook Birthplace Museum We would like to invite your school to take part in an exciting Project Billingham World Explorers Celebrating 250 th Anniversary of Captain Samuel Wallis discovering Tahiti and Captain Cook expeditions, in connection with Billingham International Folklore Festival of World Dance 2017.

3 Arts Interpretations Following your visit to Captain Cook Birthplace Museum we would like to invite your students to create artistic interpretations of the famous Captain s Journeys, which could include: visual arts or Dance/drama. Your school can decide which art form you would like to explore and let us know in advance.

4 Arts Interpretations We will have professional visual artists and dance teachers available to assist your school with the arts interpretations.

5 Performances and Displays The Billingham World Explorers project will then be presented at the Billingham festival through participant s visual art work, which will be displayed for 3 weeks (1 st to 21 st August 2017) at various locations around Billingham Town Centre and dance performances by school s students during the festival week.

6 Performances and Displays Our festival audience and visitors will be given a map, which they will use to follow the interactive route across the different displays in the centre of Billingham, portraying the routes the two captains took during their expeditions.

7 Performances and Displays The journey will culminate in live dance and music performances by school students, participating in the project and visiting dance companies from Easter Island (Chile), New Zealand and Tahiti.

8 Performances and Displays Ballet Folklorico Tupa Marka from Chile - dances from Patagonia in memory of Captain Samuel Wallis' visit to Patagonia in 1767

9 Performances and Displays Te Rerenga o Te Ra Kapa Haka from New Zealand, visited by Captain Cook in 1769

10 Performances and Displays Tamarii Tahina from Tahiti, discovered by Captain Samuel Wallis in 1767

11 12 th -19 th August 2017 If your school would be interested to join our World Explorers Project, please contact us on: We are waiting to hear from you!!!

12 Resource Pack Our Resource Pack is prepared in collaboration with Captain Cook Birthplace Museum and contains information about the journeys of two captains, the countries they explored and their cultures.

13 Your visit to Captain Cook Birthplace Museum During your school s visit to the Museum your students will first have a guided tour, discovering Captain Cook, learning about his childhood and famous voyages. As part of the museum tour they will have food tasting, object handling, dressing up and interactive activities. Following the tour the students will have interactive workshops in the Discovery Centre. They will also use the museum resources boxes, which focus on a different area of Captain Cook: early life, life on board ship and Captain Cook's voyages, including the countries he visited.

14 Museum Loans Boxes The museum also offers Loans Boxes filled with ideas and resources to bring your classroom to life with pre- and post-visit activities. Captain Cook. (KS1&2) Pirates and Life on Board Ship. (KS1&2) Australia. (KS1&2) Nanny Twice Big story book and associated resources. (KS1) During your visit to the museum you will be accompanied our festival volunteers, specially trained for this project.

15 Chronology of Captain Cook s Life

16 Chronology of Captain Cook s Life

17 Map of Captain Cook s voyages

18 Captain Samuel Wallis Samuel Wallis (23 April January 1795) was a British naval officer and explorer of the Pacific Ocean. Wallis was born near Camelford, Cornwall. He served under John Byron, and in 1766 was promoted to captain and was given the command of HMS Dolphin (1751) as part of an expedition led by Philip Carteret in the Swallow with an assignment to circumnavigate the globe. The two ships were parted by a storm shortly after sailing through the Strait of Magellan, Wallis continuing to Tahiti, which he named "King George the Third's Island" in honour of the King (June 1767). He was able to pass on useful information to Captain Cook who was due to depart shortly for the Pacific, and some of the crew from the Dolphin sailed with Cook. In 1780 Wallis was appointed Commissioner of the Admiralty.

19 Activities to illustrate Captain Cook s early life floor game:

20 Activities to illustrate Captain Cook s early life colouring:

21 Activities to illustrate Captain Cook s early life colouring:

22 Activities to illustrate Captain Cook s early life colouring:

23 Activities to illustrate Captain Cook s early life colouring:

24 Activities to illustrate Captain Cook s early life colouring:

25 Activities to illustrate Captain Cook s early life colouring:

26 Activities to illustrate Captain Cook s early life spot the difference:

27 Activities to illustrate Captain Cook s early life spot the difference:

28 East Marton and James Cook s Cottage Born on 27 th October 1728, James Cook was the second son of eight children, only two of whom survived into adulthood. His father (also James Cook) was a farm labourer who worked for the local wealthy landowners. His Mother (Grace Pace) was from Thornaby. The birthplace cottage once stood where the granite urn stands today, a few metres from the museum. It has been described as a mud house (1788) and a low cottage, of two rooms, one within the other the walls of mud and covered with thatch. (1810). The single storey cottage had probably been built in the late seventeenth century and most likely had a two-room plan. The main living room might have had a smoke hood over the fireplace made of lath and daub, which supported a stone chimney. The fire heated and lit the room and was also the main means of cooking meals. This room would have been open to the timber and thatch roof and often filled with smoke from the fire. Small-unglazed windows with shutters let in daylight.

29 Suggested Activities Food tasting- Try tasting oatcakes, which can be bought from most supermarkets. Traditional games- Think of all the games you can play, that you think James could have played as a young boy. Why not give some of them a try? (tag, hopscotch, follow the leader etc ) Corn dollies- Using art straws, have a try at making a traditional corn dolly that would have been made at harvest time in the 18 th Century.

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31 Life and people on board

32 Life and people on board

33 Whitby Cats These boats were built in Whitby, and the ships that Captain Cook first learnt to sail on. He worked as an apprentice on these ships taking coal to London. Although they were not fast, they could carry a lot of cargo. They were broad ships that we solidly built, and flat bottomed making them less likely to run aground. These qualities made the cats ideal ships to use for Captain Cook s Voyages. The Replica Endeavour

34 Whitby Cats

35 Press Ganging

36 Tools of Trade

37 Srimshaw Scrimshaw patterns engraved into whale teeth and bones. This is what the sailors did in their spare time.

38 Srimshaw activity

39 Srimshaw activity

40 Ranking Costumes Ranking costumes: Sailors: Their job on board ship was the general day to day running of the ship. From scrubbing the decks, to climbing the rigging and setting the sails. Marines: These were the people who had responsibility for protecting the crew on the boat. They were trained to fight and they would have guarded the ships and its crew. Captain: Did you know Cook was promoted to Captain when he returned from his second great voyage of discovery?

41 Ranking Costumes

42 Ranking Costumes

43 Places Captain Cook visited: New Zealand Captain Cook visited New Zealand on all three of his voyages. He was the first not only to chart it accurately but to realise that it was made up of two islands. The strait separating the North and South islands is called the Cook Strait. Some of the Maori were friendly and traded with Captain Cook other tribes greeted Captain Cook and his crew with the intimidating Haka and were quite hostile. Maori Tattooing The moko is a traditional Maori facial tattoo. Traditionally the lines were engraved into the skin, the designs and patterns are dependant on tribal affiliation, whakapapa (lineage), and individual rank.

44 Places Captain Cook visited: New Zealand

45 Places Captain Cook visited: New Zealand

46 Places Captain Cook visited: New Zealand

47 Places Captain Cook visited: New Zealand Feather Box or Wakahuia This is a carved wooden box which would have been used to store personal jewellery and valuables. They were often called feather boxes as they were used to store the feathers that the Maoris used as decorations for their hair and ornaments such as Tiki. These boxes were suspended from the rafters and viewed from below.

48 Places Captain Cook visited: New Zealand

49 Places Captain Cook visited: New Zealand Tiki necklaces (Hei Tiki) are Maori ornamental neck pendants usually made of bone or greenstone. Tiki also refers to human figures carved in wood which were used to mark sacred places and are common in the whole Polynesian area. The Tiki is one of the more mysterious Maori symbols because no one is absolutely sure about its exact historical meaning. The greenstone Hei Tiki is also the best known of the Maori ornaments and has been copied a lot for commercial purposes. Historically, Hei Tiki functioned as heirlooms (toanga) in Maori families and later on by European settlers and their families as well. They are still worn on ceremonial occasions by Maori.

50 Places Captain Cook visited: New Zealand

51 Places Captain Cook visited: New Zealand

52 Places Captain Cook visited: Easter Island (Chile) Easter Island is one of the most remote islands in the world. It is over 2000 miles off the coast of Chilie. It s Polynesian name is Rapa Nui. It is thought that there are over 1000 large stone statues, known as the Moai, around the island. Many of them are still lying down in the position in which they were carved in the quarry. Others have been moved to coastal areas. All the Moai on the coast face inland. There is a lot of mystery and intrigue around these stone statues. There is also a written script often found carved into the rocks around the island. These glyphs are known as Rongo Rongo and the writing is written in an ox plough format. Further information and images:

53 Places Captain Cook visited: Easter Island (Chile)

54 Tahiti discovery by Captain Wallis Captain Wallis discovered Tahiti in When his ship Dolphin arrived at Tahiti, Wallis himself was ill and remained in his cabin: lieutenant Tobias Furneaux was the first to set foot, hoisting a pennant and turning a turf, taking possession in the name of His Majesty. Dolphin stayed in Matavai Bay in Tahiti for over a month. Wallis went on to name or rename five more islands in the Society Islands and six atolls in the Tuamotu Islands, as well as confirming the locations of Rongerik and Rongelap in the Marshall Islands. He renamed the Polynesian island of Uvea as Wallis after himself, before reaching Tinian in the Mariana Islands. He continued to Batavia, where many of the crew died from dysentery, then via the Cape of Good Hope to England, arriving in May 1768.

55 Tahiti discovery by Captain Wallis

56 Tahiti discovery by Captain Wallis Painting by Gallo Gallina: Captain Samuel Wallis ( ) being received by Queen Oberea on the Island of Tahiti

57 Places Captain Cook visited: Tahiti Captain Cook went to Tahiti on his first voyage to observe the transit of Venus. Cook and his crew were to calculate the time it took for the planet Venus to pass in front of the sun. This calculation would help to calculate the distance from the earth from the sun. They set up camp and named it fort Venus. This fort discouraged the natives from stealing and damaging the observatory they had set up to watch the transit of Venus. Captain Cook returned to Tahiti on his second and third voyages. Further Information:

58 Places Captain Cook visited: Tahiti Costume The Tahitian costume (see activity pages) was worn by Tahitian chiefs. The headdress made them look very tall and important. The Gorget was worn to ward off spear attacks. They were made of coconut fibre and decorated with shells, shark teeth and feathers around the edges.

59 Places Captain Cook visited: Tahiti

60 Places Captain Cook visited: Tahiti

61 Additional links: Captain Wallis: /samuel_wallis.htm Captain Cook: es/cook_captain_james.shtml

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