By Amanda Jane Reynolds

preserving tradition: Aboriginal Tasmania highlights the energy and variety of up to date Tasmanian Aboriginal voices via tales, stories, essays and paintings. Cultural traditions reminiscent of mutton-birding, fishing, carving, weaving and necklace-making are celebrated the following via poems and songs — and during the craft of the makers. This booklet is the fruits of a different collaboration among an Indigenous group and a museum that has ended in a wealthy and various assortment now held through the nationwide Museum of Australia. take pleasure in assembly the folk, sharing the tales and traveling the locations of Aboriginal Tasmania.

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