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Preferred term

Aboriginal Memorial  

Note

  • Specific date: 1988
  • Specific location: Canberra (AUS), National Gallery of Australia
  • Specific medium: group of 200 burial poles
  • Specific note: by 20 Aborigines from Ramingining area

Scope note

  • 200 burial poles represent the 200 years of European settlement from 1788 to 1988; each pole commemorates all those Aborigines who were killed that year in brave defense of their traditional lands but who had no lasting monument to their sacifice.; loaned out for exhibitions.

Notation

  • 295696
  • 295697

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/HTR-KWDPZP45-N

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