Please note:
This project may contain images, voices or names of deceased persons in photographs, film, audio recordings or printed material. Some information may be culturally sensitive. The language used in some items from the Yumi Sabe collection reflects particular viewpoints of the time and context in which they were created and which may be considered inappropriate today.
This project produced an authoritative and original interpretation of the Wild Australia Show (WAS 1892–93), which was staged by a diverse company of 27 Aboriginal people for metropolitan audiences in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. The research produced a focus of interdisciplinary study on performance, photography, collections and race relations in colonial Australia, using archival and visual records. The project situated the Show in local, national and transnational narratives informed by contemporary Indigenous perspectives. This research illuminated Aboriginal agency in the ensemble, reconnected some Aboriginal kin to performers, and charted changing concepts of race at a critical juncture in Australian history.
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