Colonial Ambitions and Collecting Anxieties: Aboriginal Objects and Western Australian Frontiers, 18281914 [Hardcover]

Chapter 1

People, objects, identity

Part I: Navigating colonial spaces

Chapter 2

Western Australian collections in the British Isles: a history

Chapter 3

Frontier collecting: anxieties and opportunities

Chapter 4

Tracing colonial careerists: travels in and across empire

Part II: Collections and power

Chapter 5

Home on a world stage: Western Australia at the Glasgow Exhibition of 1901

Chapter 6

Mining materials: Aboriginal and settler industry and culture

Chapter 7

Breaking and remaking the settler telegraph

Chapter 8

The Cambridge Expedition

Afterword: Tracing a legacy

Appendix 1

Selective chronology

Appendix 2

Extant objects in British and Irish institutions

Appendix 3

Extant objects in the British Museum

Appendix 4

Key material discussed in chapters

Bibliography

This book assesses how non-Aboriginal collectors understood Aboriginal objects, and what this reveals about colonial relationships, anxieties and ambitions.?

European portrayals of Aboriginal people and their objects have long had political implications. This book explores ethnographic objects from Western Australia now in British and Irish museums, and is the first full scholarllSS