This interactive was developed by the National Museum of Australia and Icelab.
© National Museum of Australia 2014
Key reference: Jakelin Troy, King Plates: A History of Aboriginal Gorgets, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1993
All photography by Dragi Markovic and George Serras, National Museum of Australia, unless acknowledged otherwise
Background image for ‘Pastoral expansion’: ‘Aborigines hunting waterbirds’, about 1817, by Joseph Lycett, National Library of Australia, an2962715-s11