The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collection
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Abstract

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Introduction
Nicolas Peterson, Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby

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Preliminary Pages

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Contributors

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Index

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Part I: Collecting in Its Institutional Context

1. Collections as Artefacts: The Making and Thinking of Anthropological Museum Collections
Leonn Satterthwait

2. Reflections in a Cracked Mirror: What Collections Representing 'Them' Can Say about 'Us' and the Role of Museum Collections
Richard Robins

3. An Ark of Aboriginal Relics: The Collecting Practices of Dr LP Winterbotham
Daniel Leo

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Part II: Collecting under the Influence of Evolutionism

4. Gentlemen Collectors: The Port Phillip District, 1835:1855
Elizabeth Willis

5. 'Annexing All I Can Lay Hands On': Baldwin Spencer as Ethnographic Collector
John Mulvaney

6. The Man Who Collected Everything: WE Roth
Kate Kahn

7. The Australian Aboriginal Collection and the Berlin Ethnological Museum
Janice Lally

8. Talking into the Wind: Collectors on the Cooper Creek, 1890:1910
Chris Nobbs

9. The Dynamics of the Collector:Curator Relationship: Interpreting Henry Hillier's Central Australian Collections
Ian Coates

10. 'Your Obedient Servant': The John Tunney Collection at the Western Australian Museum
Ross Chadwick

11. Professionals and Amateurs: Different Histories of Collecting in the National Ethnographic Collection
David Kaus

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Part III: Before It Is Too Late

12. The 'Idea behind the Artefact': Norman Tindale's Early Years as a Salvage Ethnographer
Philip Jones

13. The Reluctant Collector: Lloyd Warner
Louise Hamby

14. Tons and Tons of Valuable Material: The Donald Thomson Collection
Lindy Allen

15. Only Sticks and Bark: Ursula McConnel:Her Collecting and Collection
Anne Perusco

16. The Art of Collecting: Charles Pearcy Mountford
Sally May

17. Ethnographic and Archaeological Collections by FD McCarthy in the Australian Museum
Val Attenbrow

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Part IV: Transformed Collecting

18. 'I Did Not Set Out to Make a Collection': The Ronald and Catherine Berndt Collection at the Berndt Museum of Anthropology
John Stanton

19. 'The Woman with Men's Business': Helen Wurm
Margie West

20. Aesthete and Scholar: Two Complementary Influences on the Kluge:Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia
Margo Smith

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