Anthropological and Aboriginal perspectives on the Donald Thomson Collection: material culture, collecting and identity

这种伙伴关系提供了一个独特的机会，结合联合收割机人类学研究，博物馆的做法和土著社区的参与，探索唐纳德汤姆森阿纳姆土地人种学收藏。这是最全面的收集物质文化的任何团体在澳大利亚，而人们仍然独立生活在丛林中。 这一收藏品现在对非土著和土著澳大利亚人具有重要的文化意义，可以使人们对过去的社会文化生活、Yolngu民族技术技能和知识以及收藏的性质有重要的了解。该项目将使许多部门受益，包括博物馆的公众和Yolngu。

This partnership offers a unique opportunity to combine anthropological research, museum practice and Indigenous community participation to explore the Donald Thomson Arnhem Land Ethnographic Collection. This is the most comprehensive collection of material culture made from any group in Australia while people were still living independently in the bush. This Collection is now of major cultural significance for non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians and can yield important insights into past socio-cultural life, Yolngu ethnotechnological skills and knowledge and the nature of collecting. The project will benefit many sectors including the museum-going public and the Yolngu.