Sea Chest

This sea chest is from a collection of ‘Cook relics’, donated to the Dominion Museum by Mrs A.G. Long in 1962. The items were bequeathed by Mrs Elizabeth Cook to Indiana Jenkins, granddaughter of Cook’s sister Margaret. Indiana gave them to her niece Hannah, who married S.J. Long, from whom they descended to A.G. Long.

Although the items have often been described as possible ‘Captain Cook relics’, the Assistant Director of the museum noted at the time of the donation that ‘much of the material seems to have a close association with Mrs Cook in the period after Captain Cook’s death, rather than with Cook himself.’