so this this story actually begins about
490 years ago almost 500 years ago and
we’re going to take a little historical
backtrack before we actually go on our
on our expedition to talk about this
extraordinary beauty if you look over
here at these islands this is a home
ihara island and right here are these
two little islands and these are the
legendary Spice Islands of Fame so
here’s a zoom in there’s the Spice
Islands and this one here is the island
of turnip day and it was here that’s
about five hundred years ago the whole
European world was basically enthralled
with trying to get here and find faster
trade routes in order to move spices
which were the most valuable commodity
at the time to Europe and in fact this
is what sent Magellan on his
circumnavigation of the globe was to try
to find a faster route to get there and
over overcome the the Portuguese and
this is a photograph of the island after
not de that’s the other island there –
dorri you can see these volcanic spires
and it was in these waters here where
Magellan’s crew came to rest and started
trading with Sultan’s and we’re working
out basically trade routes and making
agreements with the king of Spain in
order to become wealthy themselves and
of course they were filling the cargo
holds of these ships with cloves and
nutmeg and spice but the Sultan’s of
these islands they wanted to give
something to the king of Spain that
would be you know the most valuable
thing that they could imagine and for
them that was a handful of these
incredibly plumed birds that they had
acquired from one of the alleyway way
posts within there in their territories
in their domains and they gave them to
Magellan’s crew to return back to the to
the king of Spain and these birds had
been prepared in the traditional New
Guinean way which was that they’re the
wings had been cut off and their legs
had been cut off they had been basically
shrink dried around the stick to really
accentuate those incredible feathers and
when Magellan he was dead actually by
the time he got here but his crew
when time is fleet got here but his crew
took those back to Europe and they
caused quite a sensation so in the
sixteenth century
the chroniclers of the Magellan voyage
went all around Europe and we’re sharing
you know the great stories of their
adventure and one of the things they did
is they took this greater bird of
paradise plumes that were given to the
king of Spain from from the kings in the
spice Island and they took it to Rome
and in Rome they presented it to the
Pope and at the time there were these
great artists who were there on their
pilgrimages to to Rome in order to
create their incredible works of art
during the Renaissance and some of them
painted and incorporated these wingless
legless birds that could only be
explained as having come from the
earthly Garden of Eden that is they were
the birds from paradise and that’s where
they got their name
490 years ago almost 500 years ago and
we’re going to take a little historical
backtrack before we actually go on our
on our expedition to talk about this
extraordinary beauty if you look over
here at these islands this is a home
ihara island and right here are these
two little islands and these are the
legendary Spice Islands of Fame so
here’s a zoom in there’s the Spice
Islands and this one here is the island
of turnip day and it was here that’s
about five hundred years ago the whole
European world was basically enthralled
with trying to get here and find faster
trade routes in order to move spices
which were the most valuable commodity
at the time to Europe and in fact this
is what sent Magellan on his
circumnavigation of the globe was to try
to find a faster route to get there and
over overcome the the Portuguese and
this is a photograph of the island after
not de that’s the other island there –
dorri you can see these volcanic spires
and it was in these waters here where
Magellan’s crew came to rest and started
trading with Sultan’s and we’re working
out basically trade routes and making
agreements with the king of Spain in
order to become wealthy themselves and
of course they were filling the cargo
holds of these ships with cloves and
nutmeg and spice but the Sultan’s of
these islands they wanted to give
something to the king of Spain that
would be you know the most valuable
thing that they could imagine and for
them that was a handful of these
incredibly plumed birds that they had
acquired from one of the alleyway way
posts within there in their territories
in their domains and they gave them to
Magellan’s crew to return back to the to
the king of Spain and these birds had
been prepared in the traditional New
Guinean way which was that they’re the
wings had been cut off and their legs
had been cut off they had been basically
shrink dried around the stick to really
accentuate those incredible feathers and
when Magellan he was dead actually by
the time he got here but his crew
when time is fleet got here but his crew
took those back to Europe and they
caused quite a sensation so in the
sixteenth century
the chroniclers of the Magellan voyage
went all around Europe and we’re sharing
you know the great stories of their
adventure and one of the things they did
is they took this greater bird of
paradise plumes that were given to the
king of Spain from from the kings in the
spice Island and they took it to Rome
and in Rome they presented it to the
Pope and at the time there were these
great artists who were there on their
pilgrimages to to Rome in order to
create their incredible works of art
during the Renaissance and some of them
painted and incorporated these wingless
legless birds that could only be
explained as having come from the
earthly Garden of Eden that is they were
the birds from paradise and that’s where
they got their name
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