S6E1: Huia - Birds, Museums and Global Commodification

We start Season 6 "Museum Collections/Objects" with Rosa Dyer looking at the Huia, a New Zealand songbird whose dimorphic beaks garnered the attention of science, fashion, and empire. Rosa uses the museum object to ask questions about how different knowledge systems value animals. 

• Pitt Rivers Museum
• Sonic Specimen with Rachel Mundy on The Animal Turn. 
• The 1848 lithograph by John Gould 
• Birds of New Zealand by Walter Buller J.G. Keulemans
• Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, Robert S. Emmett
• 'Te Karanga a te Huia | The Call of the Huia', Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision by Sarah Johnston. 
• Huia come Home by Jay Ruka. 

Credits:

• Recorded: 7 November 2023 
• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer, editor and co-host 
• Rosa Dyer, script writer, narrator and co-host
• Rebecca Shen, episode artwork and logo
• Gordon Clarke, bed music
• Other sound effects from BBC Sound Effects, Pixabay, and Epidemic Sound
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