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
Text and published edition © 2024 The University of Melbourne
Photographs © Julia Wharington
Illustrations copyright © Samatha Richards
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
Filmed and edited by Video and Media, The University of Melbourne © 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