The violent collectors who gathered Indigenous artefacts for the Queensland Museum
- Written by Gemmia Burden, Faculty Post-Thesis Fellow, Honorary Research Fellow in History, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland
Aboriginal protectors Walter Roth and Archibald Meston between them collected over 700 objects for the Queensland Museum. State Library of Queensland
Europeans collected a huge number of Aboriginal artefacts during the colonisation of Australia. These include weapons, bags, toys, clothing, canoes, tools, ceremonial items, and ancestral human...
Read more: The violent collectors who gathered Indigenous artefacts for the Queensland Museum