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Launch of Collecting Cultures, a book about the 1948 expedition
Craddock Morton, National Museum of Australia
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 18 November 2009
Craddock Morton, Director of the National Museum of Australia, introduces, contextualises and launches the book by Sally K May: Collecting Cultures: Myth, Politics and Collaboration in the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
The ‘exciting thing was the landscape’: Raymond Specht, a botanist in the field
Dr Lynne McCarthy, National Museum of Australia
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 18 November 2009
Lynne McCarthy explores the work of Raymond Louis Specht, Expedition botanist, and considers his botanical collection as both a process and a product.
Fossicking memories
Emeritus Professor Raymond Louis Specht and Martin Thomas, University of Sydney
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 17 November 2009
Expedition botanist Raymond Louis Specht is interviewed by Martin Thomas.
Inside Mountford’s tent: paint, politics and paperwork
Dr Philip Jones, South Australian Museum
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 17 November 2009
Charles Mountford lacked formal credentials as an anthropologist or scientist, yet he led the largest and most complex scientific expedition to remote Australia. Dr Philip Jones explores Mountford’s contribution and the controversy around his leadership.
A history of the 1948 expedition
Dr Sally K May, Australian National University
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 17 November 2009
Sally K May provides a historical overview of the Expedition, its planning and execution.
The responsibilities of leadership: The records of Charles P Mountford
Suzy Russell (paper co-authored by Denise Chapman), State Library of South Australia
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 17 November 2009
Suzy Russell describes the Mountford–Sheard collection at the State Library of South Australia, shares insights recorded by Bessie Mountford in a journal she kept during the Expedition, and considers some Expedition controversies.
Terra incognito no more – reflecting on change
Robyn Williams, science journalist, presenter and author
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 16 November 2009
At the time of this ‘last great expedition’, many plants, animals, aspects of human culture were unknown to science. Robyn Williams launches the symposium Barks, Birds and Billabongs with a broad-ranging talk on science since 1948.
Investigation into the collections of Dr Herbert Basedow
David Kaus, National Museum of Australia
2 July 2009
National Museum Friends Foundation Fellow David Kaus outlines his research into Aboriginal artefacts and natural history specimens collected by Herbert Basedow between 1903 and 1928 and now held in institutions across Australia.
Stories of sadness and loss
Laina Hall, Peter Lane and Susannah Helman
Behind the Scenes – Australian Journeys series, 13 June 2009
Collector Peter Lane and curators Laina Hall and Susannah Helman discuss three stories from the Australian Journeys gallery: the emotional drama of convict tokens, Alexander Mussen’s redemption on the goldfields and Muriel McPhee’s secret trousseau.
Heavens above!
Vince Ford, Hermann Wehner and Dr Kirsten Wehner
Behind the Scenes – Landmarks series, 30 May 2009
The National Museum’s rare 1883 Grubb refractor telescope, used in early Australian astronomical observing programs and returned to working condition, is discussed by curator Kirsten Wehner, astronomer Vince Ford and astronomical engineer Hermann Wehner.
