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Seeing more than black and white: picturing Aboriginality at Australia's National Portrait Gallery

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2010

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Hinkson, Melinda

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ANU E Press

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In December 2008 Australia’s National Portrait Gallery opened to the public in a new building prominently positioned in the parliamentary triangle in the nation’s capital. In this essay I explore depictions of Aboriginality in the Gallery’s opening hang.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/8712

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ANU Press (1965-Present)

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Australian Humanities Review 49 (2010): 1-28

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Journal article

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Open Access

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10.22459/AHR.49.2010.01

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