Australia : The Vatican Museum's Indigenous Collection

The Vatican Museums represent the history of humanity through art, and The Indigenous Australian collection is a little-known and an unexplored part of that story. The collection includes the earliest extant set of Pukumani poles alongside more recent contributions of artworks and cultural objects. The responsibility to culturally reconnect contemporary Indigenous communities to their material heritage is documented in this catalog, which includes essays by Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors. Now the Indigenous Collection in this catalog and at the heart of the Vatican Museums invites others to come and learn more about Australian Indigenous cultures.