Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria

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AUSTRALIA
Drawing made by Aboriginal people:
Kangaroo
Dessin fait par des Aborigènes: Kangourou
1802
pencil
Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, Le Havre inv. 16050
AUSTRALIA
New South Wales Aboriginal active 1800s
Shield
c. 1800
earth pigments on wood, cane
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 2011 2011.137
This shield originates from the Botany Bay
region of coastal New South Wales.
An important group of Oceanic and
Australian objects, brought back to France
from the Baudin voyage, was presented
to Josephine Bonaparte and kept at
Malmaison.
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