Australia : the Vatican Museums Indigenous collection / edited by Katherine Aigner ; text, K. Aigner, K. Akerman, (and 18 others).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akerman, Kim, 1947- author.

Contributor:

Aigner, Katherine, editor, author.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Northern Territory Arts History Collection.

Northern Territory Arts History Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vatican City. Direzione generale dei musei.

Vatican City.

Art museums--Exhibitions--Vatican City.

Art museums.

Art, Aboriginal Australian--Vatican City--Exhibitions.

Art, Aboriginal Australian.

Ethnological museums and collections--Vatican City.

Ethnological museums and collections.

Art museums--Exhibitions.

Vatican City--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

395 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, A.C.T. Aboriginal Studies Press, 2017.

Summary:

From the ancient Etruscans and Romans, to the Renaissance masters of Michelangelo and Raphael, the Vatican Museums represent an aspect of the history of humanity through art. The Indigenous Australian collection is a little known and unexplored part of that story. Being amongst some of the earliest known documentations of Australian Indigenous cultures, the collection includes the earliest extant set of Pukumani poles from Melville and Bathurst Islands, alongside more recent contributions of artworks and cultural objects, and presents materials that have not been exhibited before in Australia. The responsibility to culturally reconnect relevant contemporary Indigenous communities to their material heritage held in the museum has been realised and is documented in this catalogue, which includes a catalogue of objects and essays by Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors. During the process of community visits and consultations, images of the objects brought old and young people together, instigating intergenerational dialogue about the past. Now, in collaboration with communities, the Indigenous collection can be seen in this catalogue and is represented at the heart of the Vatican Museums where the objects have become cultural ambassadors inviting others to come and learn more about Australian Indigenous cultures.

Contents:

Introduction

Indigenous Australian Collection: The making of a collection

Material Culture: Collections, connections, relationships

The material culture of Western Australia

Wanjina art of the Kimberley

Artefacts of exchange and networks of trade

Sorrow and celebration: material items of the Tiwi

Cultural Heritage: The Yued clan: identity and cultural renewal

The Kimberley: a cultural, political and social region

Missions and the making of Aboriginal modern art in the Western Desert

Wangkayarla Nguruku, Kapungku Nguruju Pina Wangkami-jarla

Ancient 'evidence' for a modern sacred

Talk about embarrassed

Resilience and resurgence in Southeastern Australia

Custodians: Protecting the river of life

Voice of the land: Laurie Baymarrwangga (c. 1917-2014)

Land of the first light

'We lived like Kings and Queens": Allan Richard Carriage (1942-2011)

Origins in country: Bodies of dreamings colliding with land

Catalogue of objects

Notes, Bibliographical References and Authors Biographies.

Notes:

Text: H. Boyd, P. Dodson, D. Ferguson, J. Healy, J. Hunt, B. James, P. Jones, S. Kleinert, A. McGrath, I. McLean, H. Morphy, W.J. Patrick, B. Pascoe, A. Poelina, B. Rooney, J. Ryan, T. Swain, M. West.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9788882714116

888271411X

OCLC:

999629123

Publisher Number:

99975672565