National Museum Australia: 5 books

Herbert Basedow was an anthropologist, geologist and medical doctor who used photography to document his expeditions into central and northern Australia between 1903 and 1928. A Different Time: The Expedition Photographs of Herbert Basedow 19031928 draws on the National Museum of Australias rich collection...

During the Second World War the Australian Government interned thousands of Australian residents who were considered a security risk. Under Suspicion: Internment in Australia explores some of these stories. The essays in Under Suspicion explore some of these stories, which reveal the sometimes disturbing nature of how the nation reacts on the home front when its existence is threatened by war.

Contacts between Indigenous Australians and outsiders Macassans, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Americans and others are known to have occurred for 400 years. This book explores these diverse, subtle, dynamic and volatile first encounters from Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives. It also...

Discovering Cooks Collections focuses on the collections of art and material culture brought back from the Pacific on Captain Cooks voyages and contains essays by some of the worlds leading and most innovative historians and anthropologists. The book celebrates the richness of Pacific Island cultures...

Papunya Painting explores the lost chapter of the Papunya Tula western desert art movement. Beautifully illustrated it includes essays from experts in the field and also provides readers with interpretation of the iconography in the artworks. The 30 works that will feature in the book fall between...