Archival research
Facing new worlds: comparative histories of Australasia and North America
Facing New Worlds turns around a major exhibition to be held at the National Portrait Gallery in 2020 in conjunction with the Smithsonian.
Ancestors' words: Noongar writing in WA government archives (1860-1960s)
This project aims to produce the first account of Noongar letter writing in Western Australian archives from 1860 to 1960.
Western Australia from its collections
Collecting the West looks at what's been collected from Western Australia. What do these collections tell us about who we were, who we are and who we can be?
The Barrow Island archaeology project: the dynamism of maritime societies in northern Australia
This project will study human occupation from exceptionally rich sites on Barrow Island, located off northwest Australia, profiling a continuous reliance on coastal resources until isolation.
In the Time of Their Lives. Wangka kutjupa-kutjuparringu: How talk has changed in the Western Desert
The Western Desert Verbal Arts Collection is a unique compilation of audio-visual recordings of the oral traditions and endangered speech styles of the Ngaanyatjarra, Ngaatjatjarra and Pitjantjatja
The genomic history of Indigenous Australia
The oral traditions of Aboriginal Australians attest to a long and abiding connection between people and their Country.
An Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography
The project will research Indigenous biography through collaboration between Indigenous researchers and the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB).
Interrogating the Riverland's colonial frontier
This project investigated the colonial frontier in South Australia's Riverland region.
Aboriginal remote narrowcast TV and the audio-visual archive
This project aims to investigate the world’s best practices in community narrowcast digital TV and contemporary methods for the long-term storage of both digital and analogue audio-visual cultural
Tindale Genealogical collection
Norman Tindale was an anthropologist based at the South Australian Museum.