It’s hard to believe that the Australian life team went to Eden to participate in the annual Eden Whale Festival – Now on its 21Yingshi One year, but our return journey felt completely different. Still with migratory baleen whales flapping their fins and in the context of the famous Bifold Bay, as well as the colorful floats and banners in the festive street parade, our conversation feels like a conversation between old friends-completely different from the past . A promising introduction in 2016.
back to Davidson Whaling Station and Orca Museum of Eden Particularly happy in some sunny weather background-passing humpback whales seem to agree. It’s great to meet old friends again and make new friends. I can happily comment on the direction of the “Eden Module” in the upcoming Australian Life Gallery, because it is full of life and a glorious heritage of a place where it was once held. And the unique and beneficial relationship between non-indigenous whalers and a group of killer whales-their heritage is so clearly celebrated in the town. The descendants with familiar names from the whaling era still shape this town, while the new generation has the opportunity to accept, accept and accept the achievements of their ancestors, and this element itself is the keynote of this year’s experience.
Cooperating with Uncle John Cruise to make wooden handles for our newly bought blubber shovel is a highlight. The blubber shovel entered the museum collection with various instruments and equipment as part of the museum last year. Whaling in southeastern AustraliaUntil now, the shovel has always existed as a part of its useful self, only as the metal end of the shovel (pictured). Fortunately, the arduous work of whaling now only exists in most of our imaginations, so it may be understandable that the handle of the blubber shovel was separated by the arduous work of the whaling station or (and sometimes equally arduous) trade journeys. , Storage and collection. How the shovel separates from its handle is something we may never know.
Uncle John uses locally grown and available wood to produce wooden handles for the shovel, which echoes the work that is usually done as routine maintenance, because the use of good tools often goes through multiple maintenance cycles. However, now that the making of this handle is no longer a routine practice, the town now celebrates the lives of past baleen whales instead of relying on their deaths to make a living. Even as a collection, adding handles to things in this way is not a normal practice for museums outside of their preservation and protection duties.The decision to make and reconnect the wooden handle was to take these details into consideration, in addition to a series of new protection and handling conditions surrounding the metal end of the shovel, as an item in the project National Historical Collection.
The production and connection of something as simple as a wooden handle reminds us of the life of this object as a hand-held tool, and it powerfully celebrates the continuity between the past and the present in the Garden of Eden. It is now easier to imagine blubber shovel as something used to cleverly slice and peel blubber from rotting baleen whale carcasses during shore-based whaling in the Garden of Eden in the early last century.
The installation of the new handle is a symbolic and important way we can recognize the legacy of Eden’s whalers and their descendants, as well as the town’s collective ability to value its unique whaling heritage, while successfully renegotiating the relationship with past baleen whales. Great Migration Path.
