Lost in transit, Launceston, Tasmania. If anyone has any information concerning this woomera please contact John Hawkins via our contact page. A rare and early spear-thrower woomera– early 19th Century. Australian Aborigine, collected in the Murray River region 1830-1840. The subtly curved body of the thrower has a hand grip of gum and at the opposite end […]
The Social Life of Aboriginal Breastplates: Encoded Objects of Colonisation
By Angel Bottaro The preservation of Aboriginal breastplates, with a degree of empathetic imagination, evoke powerful stories of colonisation. The physical weight of the objects around one’s neck and the ascriptions given to them – gorgets, brass shields, but most commonly ‘King’ and ‘Queen’ plates – made them highly charged and politicised objects from the […]
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Slit Gongs of the Sepik and Madang Provinces
By Barry Craig, South Australian Museum I have prepared a paper from a dataset of a large number of slit gongs of the Sepik and lower Ramu region, documented during field surveys in 1981, 1982 and 1983, to demonstrate slit gong variations and their repertoire of sculptural form. That paper has too many images to […]
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