S6E2: Hummingbirds - Warrior birds and feathered jewels

Using a feather fan as her base, Rosa Dyer traces how Victorian fashion turned fierce hummingbirds into quiet ornaments. The object brings into focus the differences between indigenous mythologies and western ideas of hummingbirds and what the impacts of global trade were on how we understand them today. 

• Pitt Rivers Museum
• How hummingbird and vulture mediate between life and death in Latin America by Nicole Sault 
• The disguise of the hummingbird: on the natural history of Huitzilopochtli in the Florentine Codex Montero Sobrevilla 
•  The Hummingbird Warrior by Ze Frank 
• Animals and Experience on The Animal Turn. 
• Compassionate Conservation with Daniel Ramp on The Animal Turn
• Sonic Methods with Jonathan Prior on The Animal Turn

Credits:

• Recorded: 9 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 Freesound, Prelinger Archives, Internet Archive
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