Aboriginalia: Collecting Histories of Aboriginal Representation

自联邦成立以来，非土著人为家庭制作了描绘土著人身体、手工艺品和设计的实物，并将其作为真正的澳大利亚外观进行销售。自1960年代起，原住民开始收集这些实物，被定义为“原住民”。这个跨学科的项目旨在研究土著收藏家对“原住民”的表现。这是第一项研究，以审查土著收藏家的非土著历史文物的土著在澳大利亚的物质文化的代表。该研究和相关出版物将从历史的角度探讨物质对象的土著社会生活。

Since Federation, non-Indigenous people have produced material objects for the home depicting Aboriginal bodies, artefacts and designs and marketing these as the truly Australian look. Since the 1960s, Aboriginal people started to collect these material objects, defined as 'Aboriginalia'. This interdisciplinary project aims to examine Aboriginal collectors' representations of 'Aboriginalia'. This is the first study to examine Aboriginal collectors' representations of non-Indigenous historical depictions of Aboriginality within Australian material culture. The research and associated publications will explore the Aboriginal social life of material objects in historical perspective.