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Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

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Images from the collections

Images about Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

13 images from works
  • Two people reach out to touch the tree of life and hope surrounded by dragonflies, frogs, birds and a butterfly representing an Aboriginal depiction of the cycle of life and the role people must play to ensure an AIDS free future. Colour lithograph by Zane Saunders, March 1993.
  • Mr. C. French Anga's New Zealand and Australian exhibition ... : comprising upwards of 300 full-length portraits, from life, of the prinicipal New Zealand Chiefs, with their wives and children.
  • A multi-coloured wavy background with two black silhouettes reaching toward each other and an eye in between them; one of a series of [5] Aboriginal posters entitled 'Everybody's Business' concerning 'Caring for People with AIDS' commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Services. Colour lithograph by Bronwyn Bancroft, 1992.
  • Condoman says : don't be shame be game : use condoms!.
  • Condoman, a cartoon figure, holds a packet of condoms on a beach; advertising safe sex among indigenous Australians. Colour lithograph by the Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Australia, and the Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia (Queensland).
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.
  • A central circle with four penis-like extensions surrounded by numerous small circles and flower shapes in each corner; one of a series of Aboriginal posters entitled 'Everybody's Business' concerning 'Education about AIDS' commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health. Colour lithograph by Bronwyn Bancroft, 1992.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
  • Two Australian aborigines performing a ceremony with a magical stick to make another person ill. Halftone.
  • Australia: an aboriginal woman with a bone through her nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.

Works from the collections

32 works

    • Pictures
    • Online

    Condoman says : don't be shame be game : use condoms!.

    | Date: [1995?] | Reference: 669864i
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    No condom : no way! : you can't cure AIDS, you can only be careful.

    | Date: [1996?] | Reference: 669865i
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    A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.

    | Reference: 21428i
    • Books

    The Aboriginal male in the enlightenment world / by Shino Konishi.

    Shino Konishi | Date: 2012
    • Books
    • Online

    The "Mika" or "Kulpi" operation of the Australian aboriginals / by T.P. Anderson Stuart.

    Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart | Date: [1896?]
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Related topics

Australia
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Ethnology
Safe Sex
Condoms
Nose ornaments
Scarification (Body marking)
Canberra
Queensland
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

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