Monday, 4 May 2015

'Most culturally sensitive exhibition'

Aboriginal art unfit for Western eyes Indigenous Australia show is one of the most culturally sensitive projects in the British Museum's history 
By , Arts and Entertainment Editor, The Telegraph
10:29PM BST 02 May 2015

Bringing great Australian indigenous works of art into the light at British Museum by Gaye Sculthorpe



Bicornual basket. Mulgrave River region, near Cairns, Queensland, before 1900. British Museum
David Horton 1996 map of Aboriginal Australia here at AIATSIS: http://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/culture/topic/aboriginal-australia-map
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