Content tagged with Cultural heritage

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

Return of Cultural Heritage Project

One of the items returned from Illinois State Museum, a Barrgayi (tusk shell bead necklace) from Bardi Jawi Country, WA. The Return of...

Blog post - 7 Jan 2020

Innovative Audiotape Device Designed In-house

The innovative audio-cassete cleaning device that was designed and manufactured in-house at AIATSIS. Communities and cultural...

Blog post - 24 Oct 2019

Cultural heritage material to be returned to Aranda and Bardi Jawi communities from overseas

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) welcomes today’s announcement that Aranda people of Central...

News - 10 Sep 2019

Returning cultural heritage material to Country

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is leading the Return of Cultural Heritage project which is...

News - 29 May 2019

AIATSIS statement on the Report on the inquiry into Canberra's national institutions

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) welcomes the release of Telling Australia's story - and why it's...

News - 4 Apr 2019

Return of Cultural Heritage

Image: The Gangalidda Dancers perform a ceremony at a handover event in Moungibi (Burketown). Previous ProjectOther Projects Related...

Research project - 14 Feb 2019

(Re)defining Indigenous Intangible Cultural Heritage

Indigenous knowledges cannot be broken down into components that are measurable, ownable and owned. This fragmentation is reflected in the multitude...

Publication or resource - 29 Jun 2018

Sharing success, measuring impact: Annotated bibliography

Assessing research impact is a crucial element of AIATSIS’ aspirations to collaborate with Indigenous partners and create meaningful change within...

Publication or resource - 4 Sep 2017

Converging pathways: community cultural heritage and university research

This paper follows the journey taken by an Indigenous organisation and a university to develop an Indigenous Cultural Trail through 6 communities in...

Presentation - 13 Jul 2017

AIATSIS digitisation specialists visit New Zealand

Late last year, Daryl Ciubal and I were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to travel to Wellington, New Zealand for a week as part of the...

Blog post - 24 Feb 2017

Capturing the AIATSIS Possum Skin Cloak

A few hundred years ago, a newborn Aboriginal baby in southeast Australia would have likely been protected from the extreme cold and wet weather by a...

Blog post - 6 Feb 2017

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