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The wedge collection and the conundrum of humane colonisation
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Taylor, R, The wedge collection and the conundrum of humane colonisation, Meanjin, 76, (4, Summer 2017) pp. 34-55. ISSN 0025-6293 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
The first encounter
Saffron Walden Museum is a place of wonderment. For £2.50 visitors can see an Egyptian mummy, a lock of Napoleon’s hair and Wallace the lion, stilled by his taxidermist since 1838. When I first visited the museum nearly ten years ago, my interest took me up a wooden staircase to a space perhaps less visited. The ‘Worlds of Man’ gallery was filled with indigenous-made artefacts from around the world, many of which had been there for more than 150 years.1 African statues, Hawaiian bark cloths, American tomahawks, and what I had come to see: the wooden Indigenous artefacts collected by surveyor John Helder Wedge at the close of the Tasmanian ‘Black War’ and in the first months of settlement in Victoria in 1835.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Victorian, Tasmanian, New South Wales, Aboriginal history, humanitarianism, archives, collecting, museums |
Research Division: | Indigenous Studies |
Research Group: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history |
Research Field: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history |
Objective Division: | Indigenous |
Objective Group: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and culture |
Objective Field: | Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and culture |
UTAS Author: | Taylor, R (Dr Rebe Taylor) |
ID Code: | 126284 |
Year Published: | 2017 |
Deposited By: | College Office - CALE |
Deposited On: | 2018-06-04 |
Last Modified: | 2018-07-26 |
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