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Hedley Takes a Holiday: Collections from Kanak People in the Australian Museum

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The Australian Museum holds over 1,000 cultural objects from New Caledonia. A quarter of the collection was obtained by a Museum zoologist, Charles Hedley, who visited La Grande Terre on his holidays late in 1897. He collected ethnographic and zoological specimens and organized an exchange of objects with the then Colonial Museum of Noumea. This chapter investigates the historical background to this exchange and the circumstances under which heritage and zoology were given equivalent values and objects and specimens literally swapped.

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    Jude Philp

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  1. Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

    Sarah Byrne

  2. Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney, Sydney, 2006, New South Wales, Australia

    Anne Clarke

  3. Faculty of Arts, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom

    Rodney Harrison

  4. Australian Museum and UniversityofSydney, Sydney, 2010, New South Wales, Australia

    Robin Torrence

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Philp, J. (2011). Hedley Takes a Holiday: Collections from Kanak People in the Australian Museum. In: Byrne, S., Clarke, A., Harrison, R., Torrence, R. (eds) Unpacking the Collection. One World Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8222-3_12

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