Blog archive: February 2012
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Science
Calling on Tongan Traditions: Ngatu
Lady Tunakaimanu Feilakepa is renowned and greatly respected for her traditional cultural knowledge in Tonga and across the Pacific. Here she kindly shares her knowledge on the creation and use of tapa cloth.
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At the Museum
Point and shoot #1 - Seeing is Believing
Museum photographers Carl Bento and James King on the power and practice of photography. This week, seeing is believing...
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Education
Liquid gold: save urine, save the planet?
Ancient cultures, from Greece to Asia, have used urine as a fertiliser to provide nutrients to their crops. Is recycling our urine a radical solution to global food security and saving our waterways?
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Museullaneous
Caring for Alfred North's original pictorial material
Archives volunteer, Ada Klinkhamer writes of her experience rehousing and documenting photographs and illustrations prepared for use in publications by Australian Museum ornithologist, Alfred John North.
