Indigenous Peoples' Foods from Oceania

In occasion of its 80th Anniversary, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations is opening a new museum in Rome that will serve as a permanent exhibition and educational space open to the public. The museum will feature an entire room dedicated to Indigenous Peoples, which is called HOPE.

The University of Melbourne and the Potter Museum of Art have curated an Oceania exhibition featuring a series of videos called Feeding the World Hope: Indigenous Peoples' foods from Oceania.

These videos are available with English and Italian subtitles.

Professor Marcia Langton AO

65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art exhibition featuring artworks by Naomi Hobson

Dark Emu & Black Duck Foods

Native Harvest Kitchen

Te’o Lau Dr. Viliamu Iese

Ulu (breadfruit)

Kumara (sweet potato)

Rita Seumanutafa-Palala

Inati in Tokelau

Credits

The University of Melbourne acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the unceded land on which we work, learn and live: the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong peoples (Burnley, Fishermens Bend, Parkville, Southbank and Werribee campuses), the Yorta Yorta Nation (Dookie and Shepparton campuses), and the Dja Dja Wurrung people (Creswick campus). The project acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the unceded land of Waveroo (Gap Flat Track site), the Yuin people (Black Duck Foods) and Ayapathu, Kaanju, Lama Lama, Umpila and Wik-Mungkan people (Coen, Cape York).

Interview with Professor Marcia Langton AO filmed in the Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, in the 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art exhibition

Filmed and edited by NON Studio © The University of Melbourne

65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art

Featuring artwork by Naomi Hobson, Southern Kaantju/Umpila, born 1978, Compassion I, Compassion II, Delicate, Fragility, Guidance II, Replenish, Still from Life on the river series 2024

pigment print on archival cotton rag paper

Collection of the artist © Naomi Hobson

Dark Emu

Book by Bruce Pascoe

Published by Magabala Books

Text © Bruce Pascoe 2014

Cover Design Jo Hunt

Mitchell & Button Grass flour from Black Duck Foods

Native Harvest Kitchen

Book by Dorin Gupta and Collette Day

Photographs © Julia Wharington

Book Design: Design by Nature

Michelle J. Richards, Shanysa McConville, Judith Ryan

Interview with Te'o Lau Viliamu Iese filmed at The University of Melbourne

Filmed and edited by Video and Media, The University of Melbourne © The University of Melbourne

Breadfruit & Sweet Potato

Featuring 'Ulu (breadfruit) watercolour, artist unknown [possibly Sydney Parkinson] (1769) National Library of Australia

Uala (sweet potato) watercolour, by Isabel Sinclair (1885) Plate 15 in Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian Islands

Te Papa Tongarewa

Mainstreaming of Rural Development Innovation Tonga Trust

Breadfruit flour from Nishi Trading Ltd. Tonga

Pacific Islands Student Association of University of Melbourne

Interview with Rita Seumanutafa-Palala filmed at The University of Melbourne

Inati Featuring photographs Image 1: Food division, Nukunonu Atoll, Tokelau by Glenn Jowitt; photographer; 1981; Nukunonu; colour photography; Image: 394mm (width), 264mm (height). Reference number: 0.041127. Photographer: Glenn Jowitt Reproduction Courtesy of the Glenn Jowitt Charitable Trust, Auckland

Image 2: Inati ceremony - food division, Nukunonu Atoll, Tokelau by Glenn Jowitt; photographer; 1981; Nukunonu; colour photography; Image: 393mm (width), 264mm (height) Reference number: 0.041128 Photographer: Glenn Jowitt Reproduction Courtesy of the Glenn Jowitt Charitable Trust, Auckland

Michelle J. Richards, Rita Seumanutafa-Palala

Italian translation: Gabriele Marini

Chancellery Global, Culture and Engagement, The University of Melbourne

Oceania Institute, The University of Melbourne