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By Nicolas Peterson, Nicolas Peterson, Louise Hamby, Lindy Allen
This quantity of orginal essays brings jointly, for the 1st time histories of the making and the makers of many of the significant indigenous Australian museum collections.
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Canberra, 1989. Cundy, B, Australian Spear and Spearthrower Technology, unpublished MA thesis, Australian National University, Canberra, 1980. Davidson, D, The Chronological Aspects of Certain Australian Social Institutions as Inferred from Geographical Distribution, University of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1928. Edwards, D, Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005. Edwards, R and J Stewart, Preserving Indigenous Cultures: A New Role for Museums, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1980.
But it is also clear that the sheer diversity of forms attracted the serious collectors, for if they were all the same, the lust for spears would surely not have been aroused. 46 As yet there is relatively little evidence about the impact of collecting on Aboriginal people, but two intriguing glimpses come from Donald Thomson’s time in Arnhem Land, one specifically related to spears. 47 Of more significance is Lindy Allen’s observation that over the eight years that Thomson collected in eastern Arnhem Land, he gathered the equivalent of six items from each adult!
Lampert, p. 14. Markham and Richards, p. 43. See Edwards, pp. 76, 99. Inglis, p. 26. Bryson, p. 13. Pearce, p. 8. This was called the Commonwealth Ethnographic Collection at that time; see AIAS Newsletter. Piggott. Meehan. See Cooper, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections in Overseas Museums, p. vii. Kaiser. Edwards and Stewart. The volume was the result of a UNESCO conference held in Adelaide in 1978, for which Edwards was the driving force. Edwards had also played a key role in the development of Aboriginal keeping places in central Australia, which were misleadingly called museums locally.