A little book – modestly bound, fragrant and full of... cloth.   It started as an 18th century Western curio and found its way to the Rare Books Collection at the University of Melbourne. Collected on Captain Cook's journey to the South Pacific, it's become an object of obsession among Western collectors and museum curators alike. The swatches of cloth tell their own tales, of the first trades - sometimes coerced - between cultures, of an ancient Pacific artform practised only by women, and of so much more.   In this episode of Uncurated, Clancy Balen and Qiushi Wang explore a side of Captain Cook's story that we weren't taught in primary school.

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Music on this episode was found on Freesound (https://freesound.org/), Looperman (https://www.looperman.com/) and toSound (https://www.tosound.com/). 

The outro music is based off 'The Only Instrument of It's Kind In The World' by Ben Salter (https://soundcloud.com/user-839269279/ben-salter-the-only-instrument).

A little book &ndash; modestly bound, fragrant and full of... cloth.&nbsp; &nbsp;It started as an 18th century Western curio and found its way to the Rare Books Collection at the University of Melbourne. Collected on Captain Cook's journey to the South Pacific, it's become an object of obsession among Western collectors and museum curators alike. The swatches of cloth tell their own tales, of the first trades - sometimes coerced - between cultures, of an ancient Pacific artform practised only by women, and of so much more.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In this episode of Uncurated, Clancy Balen and Qiushi Wang explore a side of Captain Cook's story that we weren't taught in primary school.
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Music on this episode was found on Freesound (<a href="https://freesound.org/">https://freesound.org/</a>), Looperman (<a href="https://www.looperman.com/">https://www.looperman.com/</a>) and toSound (<a href="https://www.tosound.com/">https://www.tosound.com/</a>).&nbsp;
The outro music is based off 'The Only Instrument of It's Kind In The World' by Ben Salter (<a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-839269279/ben-salter-the-only-instrument">https://soundcloud.com/user-839269279/ben-salter-the-only-instrument</a>).

An oil painting lost in a storeroom for decades, a dusty student card, a misplaced animal skull; these are some of the objects in the University of Melbourne's twelve museums. Each was forgotten in a different way. Join students from the Centre for Advancing Journalism on a journey of unforgetting as they ask why some objects - or people - are lost from history. And what that says about Australia. 

An oil painting lost in a storeroom for decades, a dusty student card, a misplaced animal skull; these are some of the objects in the University of Melbourne's twelve museums. Each was forgotten in a different way. Join students from the Centre for Advancing Journalism on a journey of unforgetting as they ask why some objects - or people - are lost from history. And what that says about Australia.

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