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Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Tool - Fork, Blubber Fork, n.d
Part of collection purchased from Brendan Kurtze by the City of Portland. Whaling industryWhaling implement, iron, painted gloss black, 2 prongs, short section of handle riveted into handle sleeve. The blubber fork was used to transfer sliced pieces of blubber, called "bible leaves", into the try pots for rendering or boiling it into oil. Bible leaves were thrown into the trypots with a blubber fork or blubber pike and heated until the whale oil tried out from them, much like the grease coming from bacon as it cooks. Care had to be taken not to burn the oil, but to be certain that all oil was extracted from the bible leaves.kurtze museum, whaling, blubber fork, maritime -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Animal specimen - Whale bone, Whale Bones, n.d
... Cliff Street Portland great-ocean-road Whale bone Animal ...Placed in custody of M.H.A.C. by the Department of Natural Resources. See Charlie Cooper - believed that the items were confiscated from the public who have violated the law.Whale Bones. Approx 25 various types and sizes. 1 Jaw bone Right Whale skull, vertebrae. -
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Weapon - Whaling Lance, n.d
Part of the collection purchased from Brendan Kurtze by the City of Portland in 199..?Whaling and whales have played an important part in Portland's history. The whaling industry was established in Portland in the 1830s by William Dutton. During a brief 10 year period, whales were almost hunted to extinction and the industry slowed down and wound up in the 1840sWhaling implement, iron, painted gloss black, shaft with screw on one end and turned back handle on the other. A weld near the handle perhaps indicates that this may not be the original configuration.Front: - Back: -whaling, whale hunting, maritime -
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Functional object - Fid, n.d
Used by Peter Carrison (donor's father-in-law) who was a boat builder. Originally used by Henty brothers, for splicing cordage (rope) A fid is a conical tool traditionally made of wood or bone. It is used to work with rope and canvas in marlinespike seamanshipHenty brothersFid made of whale bone. Three decorative grooves (straight) around top. A fid is a conical tool traditionally made of wood or bone. It is used to work with rope and canvas in marlinespike seamanshipmaritime technology, henty brothers -
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Book, Vanda Savill, 'Tha' She Blows -Old ships, Old salts & Old Days of Whaling & Sealing', 1980
White plastic bound book, front and back covers made from marine blue card, silver whales and text on front cover, silver seals and text on back cover. Text of book handwritten. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Weapon - Harpoon, n.d
... by the City of Portland in 199..? whaling whale hunting maritime ...Part of the collection purchased from Brendan Kurtze by the City of Portland in 199..?Whaling implement, iron, painted black gloss, no handle.Front: - Back: -whaling, whale hunting, maritime, harpoon -
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Functional object - Whale Oil Lamp, n.d
... Cliff Street Portland great-ocean-road Whale Oil Lamp Functional ...Gimbaled metal whale oil lamp, spherical cage, ring for hanging at top.whaling -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Memorabilia - Cigarette Card - Whaling Poduction, 1927
No. 7 in a series of 25 cigarette cards from Ogdens Tobacco Company series on whaling production. Full colour. Depiction of whale being towed towards whaling ship, by men in dingys . White border around card. Reverse has information relating to illustration on front.collectables, cigarette cards, whaling, marine industry, ogdens tobacco company -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Animal specimen - Whale Bone, n.d
... Cliff Street Portland great-ocean-road Whale Bone Animal ...Displayed on floor in History House.Long whale bone (possibly rib?) -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Programme - Programme - Upwelling Festival, 2012, c. 2012
Programme for Upwelling Festival 3rd November 2012, at Portland. Presented by Rotary Club of Portland Bay Inc. White, blue and green motifs and print, folds out, information one side, map with programme and location of events/displays on the other.marine ecology, upwelling festival, whales -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Flag - Flag - Portland's 150th Anniversary, 1834-1984, 1984
Portland Sesquicentenary celebrations.White flag bering words "PORTLAND'S / 1834 1984 / 150TH ANNIVERSARY" around a central motif of a whale in a black triangle. Blue and green wavy lines fill in lower section of whale. Lettering in black. Wooden dowel attached to flag.Front: (see above description)portland 150th anniversary, 1984, 1834, flag -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Weapon - Whaling Lance, n.d
From the collection of Brendon Kurtze. 19/4/2000Iron whaling lancewhaling, whale hunting, maritime -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Weapon - Harpoon, n.d
... by the City of Portland in 199..? whaling whale hunting maritime ...Part of the collection purchased from Brendan Kurtze by the City of Portland in 199..?Whaling implement, iron/steel. Painted gloss black, original head and a part of the shaft, reconstructed shaft and handle sleeve. No handle.Front: - Back: -whaling, whale hunting, maritime -
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Weapon - Harpoon, n.d
City of Portland Collection Original use by Cheyenes Beach Whaling Co. Albany W.A. Garry Tonkin - Albany W.A. transferred ownership to Brendan Kurtze - Portland Vic. Who then donated object to the City of Portland 1990's?Whale harpoon modern circa 1970's used in Albany W.A. Explosive head type. Distorted in use, steel. 4 hinged barbs and slotted swivel, tip can be screwed off to load explosives.Front: - Back: -harpoon, whaling, maritime, 1970s -
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Functional object - Bookmark, n.d
Bookmark, baleen, contemporary. Dark grey, round top, narrowing to a point; long strands of the baleen hairs along one sideFront: 'Robert Crushley 7/20/08', engraved top end Back: 20 x 26 x .1baleen, whale products, whaling, bookmark -
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Functional object - Fid, Nil, n.d
A fid is a conical tool traditionally made of wood or bone. It is used to work with rope and canvas in marlinespike seamanship. A fid differs from a marlinspike in material and purposes.Fid made of whale bonemaritime, boat building -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Portland Maritime Museum, c. 1998
Coloured photograph showing the inside of Portland Maritime Museum. There is a visitor inside the sperm whale skeletonBack: 'D23' -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Domestic object - Whale Bone Brushes, n.d
... Cliff Street Portland great-ocean-road Whale Bone Brushes ...Boxed pair of whale bone brushes, each marked 'Japan, bristle & whalebone', in blue satin lined, blue cardboard box. Brushes are oval shaped, bristles yellow. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Card - Cigarette Card - 'Cutting In', 1927
No. 8 in a series of 25 cigarette cards from Ogdens Tobacco Company series on whaling production. Full colour depiction of whale secured alongside the whaling ship. White border around card. Reverse has information relating to illustration on front. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Card - Cigarette Card - 'The Try Pots', 1927
No. 9 in a series of 25 cigarette cards from Ogdens Tobacco Company series on whaling production. Full colour depiction of crewmen working at try pots, where the whale blubber was heated to extract the oil. White border round card. Reverse has information relating to illustration on front. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Card - Cigarette Card - 'A Sperm Whale', 1927
No. 10 in a series of 25 cigarette cards from Ogdens Tobacco Company series on whaling production. Full colour depiction of sperm whale eating large squid. White border around card. Reverse has information relating to illustration on front. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Card - Cigarette Card - 'A Right Whale', 1927
No. 11 in a series of 25 cigarette cards from Ogdens Tobacco Company series on whaling production. Full colour depiction of a Right Whale. White border around card. Reverse has information relating to illustration on front. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Card - Cigarette Card - A "school" of whales, A "school" of whales, 1927
No. 12 in a series of 25 cigarette cards from Ogdens Tobacco Company series on whaling production. Full colour depiction of a school of whales. White border around card. Reverse has information relating to illustration on cover. -
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Card - Cigarette Card - #5, 1927
No. 5 in a series of 25 cigarette cards from Ogdens Tobacco Company series on whaling production. Full colour, depiction of old time whale boat. Blue backgroumd, whale boat painted white on outside, single sail from central mast, shipped oars, rudder. White border around card. Reverse has information relating to illustration on front. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Card - Cigarette Card - "Trying Out', 1927
No. 14 in a series of 25 cigarette cards from Ogdens Tobacco Company series on whaling production. Full colour depiction of crew members 'trying out' (i.e.) cutting the blubber from the whale, prior to extracting the oil from it. White border around cards. Reverse has information relating to illustration on front. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Postcard - Postcard - Cape Nelson, Victoria, n.d
... Coloured postcard. Photo of flakes of blue whale in waters... Cliff Street Portland great-ocean-road Postcard - Cape Nelson ...Coloured postcard. Photo of flakes of blue whale in waters off Cape Nelson. White border on bottom, 'Blue Whale - Cape Nelson Portland. Victoria', black print in border. Reverse has brief description of photo. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Portland Maritime Museum, c. 1998
... of the Portland Maritime Museum. Young woman and small girl inside whale ...Coloured photograph showing the inside of the Portland Maritime Museum. Young woman and small girl inside whale skeleton.Back: 'D20'portland maritime museum, sperm whale skeleton -
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Painting, Robert Ulmann, Goat, c. 1974
Robert Ulmann was born in Zurich, Switzerland, where he studied sculpture and painting, exhibiting annually with the National Art Society of Switzerland and in Paris, Munich and Stockholm. He migrated to Canada in 1956 and became a Canadian citizen. After working on the restoration of sculpture on the west wing of the Parliament Buildings Ottawa, he took up a Government appointment as one of six artist advisers to the Eskimos, initiating handicraft and sculpture programs in isolated settlements across the Central Arctic. He arrived in Australia with his Australian wife, Helen, in 1969, after two adventurous years backpacking and sketching through the United States, Central and South America and the South Pacific. From 1970 to 1972 he was employed by the Northern Territory Administration as a manual arts instructor to the aboriginal people of Docker River, a remote settlement west of Ayers Rock. A series of drawings from this period was exhibited by the Department of the Interior in Canberra, Sydney and Adelaide. Robert Ulmann’s paintings and prints of wildlife from Australia and overseas fill a beautiful studio overlooking the famous Logans Beach whale nursery at Warrnambool in the Western District of Victoria. His previous studio and home, together with 13 years of field sketches and his best work collected together for two books were destroyed by the Ash Wednesday fires at Naringal in 1983. Rob exhibited in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth as well as in the Regional Galleries of Warrnambool, Ballarat, Portland and Horsham, and, among numerous prizes, he won the award for watercolour at six of the annual exhibitions of the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia, between 1978 and 1983. Although his principal interest was in drawing and painting, he retained a fascination with sculpture. His works range from two stone fountains with figures commissioned by the City of Zurich, while he was still a student, to a 4 ½ ton sculpture in bluestone commissioned in 1977 as a memorial to Sir Fletcher Jones., a five metre representation of whale tails in steel, and a life-size bronze of St. John of God commissioned for a private hospital.Image of a goat beginning to rise from a seated position, possible struggling out of mud. Painted in yellow and brown tones, with blue shadows. Earth colours form a rough ground area surrounding the goat. A brown wash provides a cursory background behind the goat's head. Dark cream matt surrounds image. Gold painted wooden frame, with glass.Front: Robert Ulmann (lower centre, paint) Back: (no inscriptions) -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Artwork, other - Quilt, Pioneer Quilters, Millenium Quilt, 2002-2005
Portland Quilters Exhibition, 1-28 February 2006, Portland Arts Centre.Hand and machine pieced and appliqued quilt. Central depiction of the Portland bay with jettie, breakwater and Port. Scene includes fishing boats, ships, tug boats, a whale, foreshore with several buildings and a bluff with a lighthouse. Central image edged in blue fabric quilting. Surrounding this are 20 printed images of old buildings taken from sketches contained in 'The Portland of Jack Adamson' by Joe Wiltshire (book). Outside boder is blue quilted fabric. Back top contains folded and sewn area for mounting/hanging beam.Front: (no inscriptions) Back: (no inscriptions)needlework, local history, quilting -
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Artwork, other - Tapestry, Tapestry - Town of Portland Coat of Arms, 1996-2004
Made by Portland Fibre Group, 1996-2004: specifically Mary Sharrock, Dot Kelly, Ollie Dellar, Doris Amor and Ede Bailey.Tapestry woven in wool on twine warp. Cream coloured background with pale blue flecks of colour, central motif of coat of arms - features two birds standing on grey platforms to either side of shield. Central to the shield is a masted sailing vessel sitting atop blue and white horizontal lines representing the ocean. Around the sails of the vessel are radiating yellow rays and a blue surrounds representing sunburst against blue sky. The top third of shield shows a pair of sheep heads against a red background. Above the shield is depicted a helmet, crowned with a whale. Blue plumage is shown coming from the helmet and framing the whale.Front: (Weavers' initials, except Ede Bailey, woven into tapestry and are seen on the hem). Back: (no inscriptions)town of portland, textile, tapestry, weaving