Keeping Culture: Aboriginal Tasmania

(Hardback)

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Keeping Culture: Aboriginal Tasmania highlights the strength and diversity of contemporary Tasmanian Aboriginal voices through stories, memories, essays and art. Cultural traditions such as mutton-birding, fishing, carving, weaving and necklace-making are celebrated here through poems and songs - and through the craft of the makers. This book is the culmination of a unique collaboration between an Indigenous community and a museum that has resulted in a rich and diverse collection now held by the National Museum of Australia. Enjoy meeting the people, sharing the stories and visiting the places of Aboriginal Tasmania.

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Amanda Jane Reynolds is a senior curator at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia, who has worked in curatorial roles at Old Parliament House and the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. She is the author of Wrapped in a Possum Skin Cloak.