Colonialism and the Object Book

	List of figures
	Notes on contributors
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
2	The South Kensington Museum and the colonial project	11
3	Chinese material culture and British perceptions of China in the mid-nineteenth century	28
4	China in Britain: The imperial collections	41
5	Colonial architecture, international exhibitions and official patronage of the Indian artisan: The case of a gateway from Gwalior in the Victoria and Albert Museum	52
6	Stylistic hybridity and colonial art and design education: A wooden carved screen by Ram Singh	68
7	Race, authenticity and colonialism: A 'mustice' silversmith in Philadelphia and St Croix, 1783-1850	82
8	Domesticating Uzbeks: Central Asians in Soviet decorative art of the twenties and thirties	95
9	Keys to the magic kingdom: The new transcultural collections of Bradford Art Galleries and Museums	111
10	Perspectives on Henemihi: a Maori meeting house	129
11	Maori vision and the imperialist gaze	144
12	Gathering souls and objects: Missionary collections	153
13	Photography at the heart of darkness: Herbert Lang's Congo photographs (1909-15)	167
14	Taming the tusk: The revival of chryselephantine sculpture in Belgium during the 1890s	188
	Bibliography	205
	Index	217