Grains - MAAS Collection

This collection set links to the Culinary Archive Podcast Series where Lee Tran Lam explores Australia’s foodways: from First Nations food knowledge, to new interpretations of museum collection objects, scientific innovation, migration, and the diversity of Australian food.
Long before local authorities tried to ban sliced bread, Australia was home to the world’s first bakers and there’s an amazing effort to bring back this cultural knowledge and revive Indigenous grains.
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2799 Botanical model, 'Epillet du ble' (wheat grain), mixed media, made by Louis Thomas Jerome Auzoux, Paris, France, acquired 1883

Model of a wheat grain

88/289-1152 Photographic glass plate negative, ploughs on mixture of steel and timber S wagons bound for Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Clyde Engineering Pty Ltd, Australia, 1900-1930

Ploughs on S wagons bound for Wagga Wagga

85/1284-614 Glass plate negative, full plate, 'Building a wheatstack', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917

Glass plate negative, 'Building a wheatstack', by Kerry & Co

B632 Ransome's threshing machine model, representing farm equipment made in England by the agricultural machinery manufacturers Ransomes Sims & Jefferies Ltd of Ipswich, Suffolk, England, these machines separated cereal grains from stalks and the seed heads of plants, wood / metal, made by H Rand, T

Model of Ransome's threshing machine made in 1931

N21084 Trade token, in exchange for a 'Half Loaf' of bread, aluminium, issued by Supreme Bread Bakery, New South Wales, Australia, c. 1930-1960

Trade token issued by Supreme Bread Bakery

85/1284-739 Glass plate negative, full plate, 'Reaping & Binding', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917

'Reaping & Binding' by Kerry and Co

C4011 Millstones (pair), from a waterpowered flour mill, vesicular basalt, used at Barcom Glen watermill erected by Thomas West, Paddington, New South Wales, Australia, 1810 -1812

Millstones used at West's Barcom Glen watermill, Paddington, NSW, 1810-1812

93/36/1 Grindstone and mill, stone, sandstone, maker not recorded, date not recorded, New South Wales, Australia

Grindstone and mill

88/289-670 Photographic glass plate negative, parts for a winnower, Clyde Engineering Pty Ltd, Australia, 1900-1940

Glass plate negative of parts for a winnower

2016/48/3 Model of Sydney Harbour Bridge, dry pasta / cardboard / rock / paper, made by Majid Rabet while in Immigration Detention, Villawood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2011

Model of Sydney Harbour Bridge made using spaghetti

85/452 Tablet with incised Sumerian cuneiform pictographic script, receipt for livestock, clay, Drehem, Sumeria, 2041 BCE

Tablet with Sumerian cuneiform pictographic script

D9713 Flail, for threshing wheat, wood / leather / metal, maker unknown, probably News South Wales, Austalia, before 1874

Flail used for threshing wheat

N21079 Trade token, to be exhanged for 'One Loaf' of bread, aluminium, issued by Q C E Bakery, New South Wales, Australia, c. 1930-1960

Trade token issued by Q C E Bakery

88/289-122 Photographic glass plate negative, spare parts for harvester, made by the Clyde Engineering Pty Ltd, Graville, New South Wales, Australia, 1900-1945

Glass plate negative of parts for harvester

B2400 Header-harvester, with grain bin, ground drive, full size, 'Sunshine', metal / timber, made by H V McKay Pty Ltd, Sunshine Harvester Works, Sunshine, Victoria, Australia, 1935, used by the Hyland and Stapleton families of Cudal, New South Wales, Australia

Sunshine header-harvester

2017/51/78 Standard grain weights with case, 1oz to very small, made by L Oertling, London, England, date unknown

Standard grain weights

2010/1/393 Slide rule, Grains Rule, single-sided, open frame, wood / brass, made by Dring & Fage, London, England, c. 1903-1938

Dring & Fage grains rule

85/1284-74 Glass plate negative, full plate, 'Stripping Wheat', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917

Glass plate negative

85/1284-1310 Glass plate negative, full plate, 'Bagging the Wheat', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917

'Bagging the Wheat' by Kerry and Co