This research considers one particular element of Koori artistic practice in south-east
Australia—the unique and continuing use of the line by the region's male artists. Line-work is …

This article explores the exhibition history of decorative shell-art objects made by Aboriginal
women in southeast Australia since the late Victorian era. Although produced for over a …

For almost 150 years, Aboriginal women around Sydney have engaged in an informal cash
economy by making and selling small shell-decorated objects. The longevity of the practice …

For many years the shell art of Aboriginal women on the South Coast of New South Wales
has been an icon of Aboriginal people's survival in that region. It is on the record since the …

Between the late 1860s and early 1880s, several natural history museums in Australia and
New Zealand acquired glass models of marine invertebrate animals made by the German …

This paper documents an Indigenous Australian souvenir boomerang dated to 1928 which
was most likely produced by the Indigenous Australian community at La Perouse (Sydney …

Landmarks: People and Places in Australia. A place featured in the gallery is Bennelong
Point in Sydney, the site of the Sydney Opera House.[2] A centrepiece in the display is a …

What would Australia be like if it had been recognised as terra alterius,'land of another', by
the British, rather than claimed and treated as terra nullius,'land of no-one'? This question …

Shell-work of the kind made by Aboriginal women at La Perouse in Sydney and in other
communities along the NSW coast is not to everyone's taste. Indeed, it has long been …

Despite extensive academic focus on Indigenous Australian art, sustained engagement,
particularly in the discipline of anthropology, has largely focused on artists and artworks from …