Have Another Look Captain Cook! school program at Queensland Museum Cobb and Co Toowoomba
School students of the region participated in a celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture in a unique program of activities at Cobb and Co. See details and photos here.
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First Nations culture and traditions are being taught and shared all this week with Toowoomba-region schoolchildren at the annual Have Another Look Captain Cook! program at Cobb and Co.
The program consists of hands-on learning with round-robin style of activities including storytelling, exploring First Nations tucker, medicines and tools as well as a dance presentation from Ngarrumban Arts and Cultural Experience.
Clontarf Foundation Toowoomba State High School year 10 student Sonny Lucas was entrusted with helping to run the outdoor program of activities and said he enjoyed passing on the skills and knowledge acquired from his elders of the Cunnamulla area to the youngsters on the oval behind the museum where the sport activities taught about Dreamtime hunting with boomerang and spears.
“It’s just fun teaching the younger kids what we did back in the days. We don’t get the opportunity that often but when we do we never waste our time,” he said.
The young Indigenous man from the Bundjalung and Kooma nations spoke of the importance and privilege it was for him, and his Clontarf Foundation mates, to share their knowledge of customs and traditions with both the Indigenous and non-Indigenous kids.
For Fairholme College year 4 student Lucy Hall the best part of the activity was trying to hit the (pretend) kangaroo.
The museum welcomed 250 students on the first day of the program on Monday and it is anticipated by the conclusion of the week-long event close to 1500 students will have been involved.
As well as the hands-on learning students also have the opportunity to be among the first to view the latest exhibition hosted by Cobb and Co featuring trailblazing 19th-century Australian botanical artist Ellis Rowan. The artist travelled between 1880 and 1910, from Rockhampton to the Torres Strait and Papua New Guinea, and is noted for pushing the boundaries of art and exploration.
More information can be found here.
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