Always great to be back in Laramba where the arlwengarlpwer (spangled perch) is boss.

🎓 Dr Joel Perrurle Liddle 🎓 and his supervisory team, of which I was honoured to be part of. Wonderful to celebrate his hard won achievement with Dr James Rose and Prof Shawana Andrews.

‘Humanising Natural History Collections’ workshop, Deakin University Melbourne.

It was a real treat to talk about the Birrundudu Drawings and anthropology with these two star communicators - Shelley Krape and Amy Carmichael on the best regional radio station in the country, MainFM. Listen to the cracking Drones song at the start: www.mixcloud.com/MainFm/the-n...

Our book on these incredibly important drawings, their making and legacies is now in physical form! Birrundudu Drawings...John Carty, Jason M. Gibson, Alistair Paterson, Luke Scholes, @Jessyca Hutchens, Stephen Gilchrist. Pre order now: upswellpublishing.com/product/birr....

Martin Hagan’s art. Australian desert iconography rendered with crushed native grasses and natural pigments.

The Spencer and Gillen: A Journey Through Aboriginal Australia website is up and running again: spencerandgillen.net

🚨🚨 After 7 years of research and 4 years of community consultation a new book emerges. Birrundudu Drawings showcases a body of imagery representing ceremony, country and Dreaming produced by 16 Aboriginal men in 1945. Preorder available now: upswellpublishing.com/product/birr...

The desert among the snow: how Anmatyerr ceremony men came to create ground paintings in Switzerland theconversation.com/the-desert-a...

New Article on the Future of Connected Museum Collections out now: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

The proofs are in for our new paper in Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 12 (2024): 126–141 http://doi:10.3167/armw.2024.120111

An absolute honour to help the Anmatyerr men of central Australia bring their cultural performances to Swiss audience ms at the Fondation Opale.

Work begins on the Anmatyerr @ingkantety.bsky.social ground painting project at Fondation Opale in Lens, Switzerland.

#Anteater figure, 1975-77 Warao artist, El Pajal, Venezuela Carved Balsa wood with inlaid seeds 38.2 x 13.4 x 6.2 cm Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian 26/7561 americanindian.si.edu/collections-... #IndigenousArt #SourhAmericanArt

The perfect soundtrack to finishing a writing project.

As a archive/collections enthusiast and lover of music I can't get enough of the Numero Group. They are an archival record label unearthing and re-releasing 20th century sonic curios and forgotten artists of great diversity. www.gq.com/story/numero...

I had the pleasure of lunching with the Dischord Records crew back in the day. Their philosophy and principles had a huge impact. I continue to share their interest in diy culture-making and and archiving. festival.si.edu/blog/fugazi-...

Interesting development in the USA. The Cleveland Museum of Art has installed opaque covers on display cases containing Native American artworks and objects in compliance with the new NAGPRA amendments... www.cleveland.com/news/2024/01...

Anthropologists still longing for pristine and untouched Native cultures is always a trip (as it was for Radin in the 1930s), there's a kind of country and the city logic to it, those cultures were pristine in 1900 or 1850, always over that last temporal hill

Now that Bluesky numbers have improved, here’s a recent article I contributed to on the ‘New Protectionism’ in Indigenous collections and archives: publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/as...

Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID. #AcademicSky

2024 was big year for fieldwork. Always a thrill to be mapping sites in central Australia amongst the spinifex.

Last weekend, Museums Victoria's Coburg storage facility was flooded and collection items literally washed out onto the streets: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Anmatyerr ingkantety team are heading to Switzerland in a few weeks to make a ground painting. Stay tuned!

The AHA has joined the exodus from the bad place and has set up here (probably in both places for a while) - please follow and share for Aust History news:

More work to be done but we have begun mapping a song from Anmatyerr Country.

ANU Seminar on ceremony being worked up for publication now… rsha.cass.anu.edu.au/events/anmat...

Harvesting anteth mpay-mpay (common everlasting daisy) for an Anmatyerr art installation project. Stay tuned.

The New Protectionism: Risk Aversion and Access to Indigenous Heritage Records - Published in @AandM_Journal and can be found here: publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/as...

The Ingkantety: Following Anmatyerr Law website is now live. Provides a snapshot of #Anmatyerr engagement with #museums #archives and preserving unique Indigenous #intangible and #tangible cultural heritage. ingkantety.org.au

Working with Peter Ywekel to record the shield design and story for this #Anmatyerr place, Marleyelkarem. It was a good day.

Though unnamed in the original 1899 Spencer and Gillen publication, this old man was Kangeye Pengarte, from the Alice Springs area. Not sure that his life was that 'simple', or that he was amongst the 'first men'...

Proud to share our Ingkantety website which details important work recording Anmatyerr cultural traditions in central Australia: ingkantety.org.au

Expert in a dying field, or dying in a field of expertise.

Back on Anmatyerr country at Arwerlt Atwaty.

4 year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Bergen, Norway (project "Contested frontiers of settler states": www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

This podcast is great. A deep dive into an era of the little-documented 90s underground post-punk DIY culture that shaped me more than I realised. www.washedupemo.com