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Author: Robins, Richard
Title: Reflections in a Cracked Mirror: What Collections Representing "Them" Can Say about "Us" and the Role of Museum Collections
In: The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections
Editors: Peterson, Nicolas, Allen, Lindy and Hamby, Louise
Imprint: Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2008, pp. 61-74
Subject: History of Human Sciences
Description: Paper presented at a symposium "The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections" held at Museum Victoria in February 2006.
Source: Cohn 2011

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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