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Collections 29 -- Leonn Satterthwait -- 2. Reflections in a Cracked Mirror: What Collections -- Representing 'Them' Can Say about 'Us' and the Role -- of Museum Collections 61 -- Richard Robins -- 3. An Ark of Aboriginal Relics: The Collecting Practices of -- Dr LP Winterbotham 76 -- Daniel Leo -- Part II: Collecting under the Influence of -- Evolutionism -- 4. Gentlemen Collectors: The Port Phillip District, 1835-1855 113 -- Elizabeth Willis -- 5. 'Annexing All I Can Lay Hands On': Baldwin Spencer as -- Ethnographic Collector 141 -- John Mulvaney -- 6. The Man Who Collected Everything: WE Roth 163 -- Kate Kahn -- 7. The Australian Aboriginal Collection and the Berlin -- Ethnological Museum 190 -- Janice Lally -- 8. Talking into the Wind: Collectors on the Cooper Creek, -- 1890-1910 206 -- Chris Nobbs -- 9. The Dynamics of the Collector-Curator Relationship: -- Interpreting Henry Hillier's Central Australian Collections 235 -- Ian Coates -- 10. 'Your Obedient Servant': The John Tunney Collection -- at the Western Australian Museum 255 -- Ross Chadwick -- 11. Professionals and Amateurs: Different Histories of -- Collecting in the National Ethnographic Collection 281 -- David Kaus -- Part III: Before It Is Too Late -- 12. The 'Idea behind the Artefact': Norman Tindale's -- Early Years as a Salvage Ethnographer 315 -- Philip Jones -- 13. The Reluctant Collector: Lloyd Warner 355 -- Louise Hamby -- 14. Tons and Tons of Valuable Material: The Donald Thomson -- Collection 387 -- Lindy Allen -- 15. Only Sticks and Bark: Ursula McConnel--Her Collecting -- and Collection 419 -- Anne Perusco -- 16. The Art of Collecting: Charles Pearcy Mountford 446 -- Sally May -- 17. Ethnographic and Archaeological Collections by -- FD McCarthy in the Australian Museum 472 -- Val Attenbrow -- Part IV: Transformed Collecting -- 18. 'I Did Not Set Out to Make a Collection': The Ronald and -- Catherine Berndt Collection at the Berndt Museum of -- Anthropology 511 -- John Stanton -- 19. 'The Woman with Men's Business': Helen Wurm 537 -- Margie West -- 20. Aesthete and Scholar: Two Complementary Influences on -- the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University -- ofVirginia 556 -- Margo Smith -- Contributors 580.

-- Bone needles, awls, fishing hooks -- Instruments used for cutting and scraping -- Foods, decorating materials, narcotics, fixatives, etc -- Musical instruments -- Letter or message sticks -- Canoes -- Wallets -- Stone chisels or adzes -- Flaked stone axes -- Chipped and flaked stone implements -- Flaked stone knives -- Glass spear heads -- Ground stone axes -- Stone hammer axes -- Gad-shaped axes -- Grooved axes -- Stone wedges -- Pebble axes -- Scrapers, etc. -- "Blanks" -- Spokeshaves, chipped and flaked stone knives -- Grinding stones -- Grinding and pounding stones -- Chipping hammers -- Anvils and husking stones -- Stones for dressing spear shafts -- Large grinding stones -- Tasmanian stone implements -- Comparative stone series -- Ceremonial objects -- Sacred sticks and stones -- Churinga -- Articles of magic -- Pointing sticks and bones -- Shoes, etc. worn during a Kurdaitcha -- Stone knives used in certain initiation ceremonies -- Burial and mourning -- Melville and Bathurst Islands graves -- Grave post -- Objects used by the natives of Melville and Bathurst Islands -- Native bark drawings -- Picture on smoked bark -- Scene illustrating Aboriginal life -- Playthings -- Smoking pipes -- Miscellaneous -- Specimens illustrating tree cutting -- Woman's dilly bag and contents

Hart -- Representation and reality: science and the visual image / Elizabeth Edwards -- The original Australians and the evolution of anthropology / Howard Morphy -- 'The foundations of all good and noble principles': Oxonians and the Australian universities in the nineteenth century / Richard Symonds -- Australians at Oxford / John Legge.