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Journal Article

Authors
Darragh, Thomas A. and Pullin, Ruth
Title
Eugene von Guérard and the Ethnological Museum in Berlin: correspondence 1878 - 1880
In
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria
Imprint
vol. 135, no. 1/2, 2003, pp. 102-26
Url
https://www.publish.csiro.au/RS/pdf/RS23017
Subject
Chronological Classification 1788-1900 Human Sciences
Description

Abstract: "This paper details the correspondence between nineteenth-century landscape painter Eugene von Guérard and the Ethnological Museum, Berlin. It includes complete translations of the relevant correspondence from Old German script. The letters contain information on the provenance of the collection of Australian Aboriginal cultural possessions that von Guérard sold to Berlin, as well as documentation of the items purchased by him on behalf of the museum. They record unexpected cross-cultural exchanges, document the building of individual and institutional collections of First Nations' cultural belongings in colonial Victoria and they trace the people and processes involved in the transfer of this collection to a major German museum. The information recorded in the letters has the potential to inform the process of reconnecting specific objects with source communities."

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260