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Ocean Guardian – Malu Yawa Garka
“Stingrays … glide over the Reef without touching the coral, just as humankind should not touch the Reef.” Brian Robinson, 2017...
Blog post - 17 Mar 2020
Conservation of Indigenous Language Cards
The Ken Hale language cards in the AIATSIS Collection number over 3500 and help document various Indigenous languages from the remote...
Blog post - 2 Sep 2019
Treaty - Yothu Yindi
This blog post reflects on how the repatriation of sound recordings from the Waterman Collection, held in the AIATSIS Collection, inspired the...
Blog post - 20 Jun 2019
Pallottine Mission student records - Tardun, WA
In July 2017, the Pallottines donated a collection of material to AIATSIS relating to the Mission, hostel and school that had been operating in...
Blog post - 3 Jun 2019
Nganapurru malngmarama balandanha runungura baman
"We found a white man on an island long ago" A first-hand account of the rescue of U.S Air Force Flight Lieutenant Clarence Sanford on 14th...
Blog post - 23 Apr 2019
Remembrance Day 2018
AIATSIS pays our respects to Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders who served and died in all wars. Each year on the 11th November...
Blog post - 9 Nov 2018
A Rare Pine Needle & Raffia Mat by Marilyne Nicholls
In 2016, AIATSIS acquired a tiny woven object only 16cm in diameter for our Art and Object Collection. Its small size belies the complex story...
Blog post - 7 Nov 2018
A response to ‘Aboriginalia and the politics of Aboriginal kitsch’
Dolly made by Laddie Timbery AIATSIS - ATS 1078_063 In 2016, AIATSIS acquired Kerry Reed-Gilbert's extensive collection of decorative...
Blog post - 16 Jul 2018
A Larrakia - Filipino Love Story
Poster, Keep him my heart: a Larrakia-Filipino love story, a play by Gary Lee, Darwin High School Tank, August 1993. Designer: Gary Lee, MS 5025...
Blog post - 3 Jul 2018
Jimmy Pike
Jimmy AIATSIS Collection [ATS 1036_176] Jimmy Pike (approximately 1940-2002) was a Walmajarri man of the Great Sandy Desert and prolific...
Explore article - 29 Jun 2018
Reading Room Display: The Kerry Reed-Gilbert collection
Man & Women (vases) The Kerry Reed-Gilbert Collection AIATSIS (R02181 - ATS 1078_064_065) Kerry Reed-Gilbert is a Wiradjuri elder,...
Blog post - 27 Jun 2018
Photographing large paintings in the Stanner Room
On an evening in early March 2018 members of the AIATSIS Photographic Digitisation team started to clear furniture out from the Stanner Room, the...
Blog post - 19 Jun 2018
AIATSIS is refurbishing its Canberra building
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is refurbishing its Canberra building, which houses most of its...
News - 25 May 2018
AIATSIS formalises unprecedented global partnerships
(L-R) AIATSIS CEO Craig Ritchie, Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Dr Laura van Broekhoven, AIATSIS Chairperson Michael McDaniel and Pitt Rivers...
News - 25 May 2018
Fight for Life: The Father Dixon and the Stuart Case Papers
Ave Maria or Hail Mary in Arrernte, MS 3764 Series 5, Item 6 On 10 May 1959, Catholic priest Father Tom Dixon visited Arrernte man Rupert...
Blog post - 14 May 2018
Papers of Alick and Merle Jackomos
Esmai, Merle and Alick Jackomos, 1967, Melbourne, Victoria. (JACKOMOS.A02.CS-000092248) Merle and Alick Jackomos have a long connection with...
Blog post - 1 May 2018
Finding families on film
It’s a Long Road Back DVD cover This year marks 10 years since the National Apology to Australia’s Stolen Generations, 20 years since the...
Blog post - 3 Apr 2018
Australia: the Vatican Museums Indigenous collection
Australia: The Vatican Museum’s Indigenous Collection The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)...
News - 13 Dec 2017
Pukumani poles
Pukumani poles (tutini), Tiwi Islands, NT
Gallery - 24 Nov 2017
From Art Petition to the People's Movement for Reconciliation
On 12 October 1997, Australia awoke to the biggest art petition the nation had ever seen. Assembled on the lawns of Parliament House, Canberra were...
Blog post - 9 Nov 2017