I'm not sure if I keep finding about decorative uses for teeth, or if they keep finding me. But please enjoy the floor of the 1870s-built grotto at Werribee Mansion.

That's not a mosaic tile floor, it's sheep vertebrae, and apparently sheep and human (children's) teeth!

I had no idea about this!

The latest Royal Historical Society of Victoria newsletter has a piece about the Amherst hospital, including an extant #TB chalet.

It's been preserved and is now up in Maryborough! I only knew about the surviving chalets in New Town, Hobart (pictured in 2017).

Check it out here: https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/publications/history-news/

Has anyone written about the fashion/#industry of #Acacia aneura (mulga wood) timber #knickknacks in (I'm guessing) early 20th century Australia? I can't find much at all, but they're near omnipresent in op shops these days!

Images from Museums Victoria's collections. Cribbage board photographed by Taryn Ellis.
https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/1557631
https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/1741065

(Be aware that the above links go to pages discussing a racist slur used in the items' brand name.)

Tonight's surprise interesting article find (I am not complaining though!) is this article by Ian Byrne (who I cannot find on social media to let them know I reading enjoyed their work) about tourist maps in the Soviet Union:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00087041.2021.1982458

#maps #history #geography #soviethistory

Just spotted this book, available in an open access PDF! It looks really interesting.

"What Photographs Do
The making and remaking of museum cultures."
Edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Ella Ravilious
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/192312
#openaccess #book #photography #glam