Abstract:
The aboriginal (Koori) people in this series are from nineteenth-century photographs held in the State Library of Victoria’s Picture Collection. For the Koori community in Victoria, the original photographs are treasures, bearing a storehouse of stories and family history. For these people, they symbolize the knowledge of the Aboriginal heritage. Conversely, documentation of the collection in the library’s records is in the form of classifications and captions which reflect nineteenth-century ethnographical terminology and popularized attitudes from the British cultural viewpoint of the time,
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