The Expedition Photographs of Herbert Basedow 1903–1928
National Museum of Australia
Herbert Basedow was an anthropologist, geologist and medical doctor who used photography to document his expeditions into central and northern Australia in the early decades of the twentieth century. The exhibition draws on the National Museum of Australia’s rich collection of Basedow’s photographic work. These revealing, sometimes confronting, images provide a fascinating historical record of the people and places he encountered, and life in remote Australia in the early 1900s.
Herbert Basedow on Buxton, a riding camel, near present-day Granite downs station, South Australia, 1903.
Photograph by Alfred Treloar using Basedow's camera.
Herbert Basedow collection, National Museum of Australia
Tayenebe
TasmanianMuseum and ArtGallery
Tayenebe is a Tasmanian Aboriginal word meaning ‘exchange’. It is also the title of a unique project supporting Tasmanian Aboriginal women in the revival of traditional fibre artwork skills. Integral to Tayenebe is the sharing of knowledge between people and across time. A series of fibre workshops facilitated by Arts Tasmania will culminate in a touring exhibition which will initially open at the TasmanianMuseum and ArtGallery in July 2009.
