Making waves: interview with Sunlight Bassini.(exhibit of Australian aborigine artifacts)(Brief Article)

From: New Internationalist | Date: August 1, 2002 | Copyright information

THE history found in books is usually written by the victors, but objects and images can tell another story. Objects and images such as the 11,000 pictures and 7,500 artefacts collected from Aboriginal communities living in the top end of Australia and now held in the city of Melbourne's main museum. In March this year, Sunlight Bassini--a Lamalama elder from the Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland--made a 4,000-kilometre journey from the northern tip of Australia to Museum...

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