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A Bird-Headed Kanak club in Norwich

29/11/2020 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

by Carolina Gallarini While objects from Oceania can be viewed in several museums in the United Kingdom including the British Museum in London, the National Museums of Scotland or the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, one of the most interesting English museums holding Oceanic art is the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (SCVKasarA), located at the […]

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Filed Under: Members Only, Objects, V25 Issue 4

The Social Life of Aboriginal Breastplates: Encoded Objects of Colonisation

11/06/2018 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 […]

Filed Under: Artefacts, Objects, V23 Issue 2

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