AUSTRALIAN ART CRAFT Aboriginal

• vii, 64 p. : chiefly col. ill., map, ports. ; 18 cm. First Edition #261124

Based on an exhibition at the National Museum of Australia, this compelling volume tells the story of four Victorian women—Lee Darroch, Treahna Hamm, Vicki Couzens, and Debra Couzens—who in 1999 decided to revive the 1800s cloak-making tradition of their people, who incised possum-skin cloaks with intricate designs representing clan identity and the natural world.

In a museum, is where Debra Couzens, Vicki Couzens, Lee Darroch and Treahna Hamm found the inspiration to revive their communities’ craft of cloak-making. Comprising tools, artworks, ornaments and two magnificently worked possum skin cloaks, this collection is testament to their commitment and the resilience of their culture.

First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

• Art – Artists – Women
• Cultural heritage – Protection
• Art – Crafts – Leather and skin works – Cloaks
• Art – Economic aspects – Markets – Market places
• Art – Crafts – Leather and skin works
• Law – Indigenous
• Social identity
• Costume and clothing – Cloaks and coats
• Technology – Tools
• Hunting – Possum
• Art – Drawing
• Material culture – Fur and skin objects and decorations
• Wergaia / Wotjobaluk people (S17) (Vic SI54-15)
• Gunditjmara / Gurndidy / Dhaurwurd-Wurrung people (S20) (Vic SJ54-11)
• Yorta Yorta / Yota Yota people (D2) (NSW SI55-13)
• River Murray (SW NSW, N Vic, SE SA SI54, SI55)
• Victoria (Vic)
• Echuca (N Vic SJ55-01)
• Warrnambool (W Vic SJ54-11)
• Tae Rak / Lake Condah (W Vic SJ54-11)

Subject:

• National Museum of Australia — Exhibitions
• Fur garments — Exhibitions
• Aboriginal Australians — Victoria — Clothing — Exhibitions
• Art, Aboriginal Australian — Victoria — Exhibitions