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To attempt some new discoveries in that vast unknown tract
Professor Adrienne Kaeppler, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, United States
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
Anthropologist Adrienne Kaeppler outlines the research that has gone into reconstructing the ethnographic collections from Captain James Cook’s three Pacific voyages.
Cook, his mission and Indigenous Australia: a perspective on consequence
Doreen Mellor, National Library of Australia
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
Curator Doreen Mellor examines the life-changing consequences for Australian Indigenous peoples of Captain James Cook’s first Pacific journey, and subsequent European settlement, as the background to the story of the Stolen Generations.
Footprints in the sand: Banks’ Maori collection, Cook’s first voyage 1768-1771
Paul Tapsell, Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
Historian Paul Tapsell discusses how artefacts in Joseph Banks’ collection from Captain James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific can be viewed as ‘taonga’, or Maori treasured possessions.
Collecting for the future: a collections development plan for the National Historical Collection
Mathew Trinca, National Museum of Australia
Collections 2006 series, 21 March 2006
Collections and Content General Manager Mathew Trinca outlines the National Museum of Australia’s Collections Development Plan, designed to support collecting efforts for five years.
Singular or plural? Social history and national collections
Ian McShane, Swinburne University of Technology
Collections 2006 series, 21 March 2006
Historian Ian McShane analyses social history as museum theme and practice from 1981 to 2000.
Life and art? Relocating Aboriginal art and culture in the museum
Angela Philp, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Collections 2006 series, 21 March 2006
Historian Angela Philp explores Aboriginal art and culture, and the tensions between aesthetics, history and politics that have been critical in the institutional histories of the National Museum of Australia and the National Gallery of Australia.
Australia’s Official Papuan collection: Sir Hubert Murray and the how and why of a colonial collection
Sylvia Schaffarczyk, Australian National University
Collections 2006 series, 21 March 2006
Sylvia Schaffarczyk reconstructs the history of the Official Papuan collection at the National Museum of Australia and examines Australian collecting in Papua during a key period in the development of anthropology and Australia’s colonial interests.
Professionals and amateurs: different histories of collecting in the National Ethnographic collection
David Kaus, National Museum of Australia
Collections 2006 series, 21 March 2006
Curator David Kaus provides an overview of the Aboriginal material in the National Museum of Australia’s National Historical Collection.
Reflections on the history of the National Historical Collection
Dr Richard Baker, Dr Don McMichael, Professor John Mulvaney, Peter Pigott, Andrew Reeves and Dr Luke Taylor
Collections 2006 series, 21 March 2006
Six expert speakers – each involved with shaping the National Historical Collection over time – reflect on their personal experiences with the National Museum of Australia in a discussion with curator Kirsten Wehner.
Weird and wonderful: the first objects of the National Historical Collection
Dr Libby Robin, Australian National University
Collections 2006 series, 21 March 2006
Libby Robin tells the story of the zoological specimens, collected by Sir Colin MacKenzie, that were among the first objects in the National Museum of Australia’s National Historical Collection.
