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The J.T. Tunney Collection

Also known as: Tunney Collection
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The collection is not subject to copyright but the Museum requests community approval prior to the reproduction of any of the items.

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Brief description

A collection of ethnographic objects and photographs compiled by J.T. Tunney during the period 1895 - 1903, as part of his role as Western Australian Museum Collector.

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In 1895 John T. Tunney was appointed Museum Collector, a position dedicted to the acquisition of natural history and anthropological material for the emerging Western Australian Museum. For the next ten years Tunney made a number of trips across the length and breadth of Western Australia and also worked along the South Alligator River of the Northern Territory. During this time Tunney collected more than 1500 objects and took a number of images of Aboriginal people from the Murchison, Kimberley and Northern Territory. Interestingly Tunney enjoyed more success collecting Aboriginal cultural material in the Northern Territory than in Western Australia. The collection is siginificant as a record of the availability of objects in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century and as a record of the collecting practices of colonial museums during this period. The collection is also accompanied by the letters sent by Tunney to the director of the Museum Bernard Woodward and provides insights into the process of collecting at that time.

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The collection contained a number of sets of Aboriginal Ancestral Remains, which have either been returned to community or are the subject of the Museum's ongoing repatriation program.

Data time period: 1897 to 1903

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Spatial Coverage And Location

text: Koparlgo Mission

text: South Alligator River

text: Kimberley

text: Perth

text: Pilbara

text: Murchison

text: Western Australia

text: Northern Territory

Subjects
Aboriginal | Aboriginal artefacts | Aboriginal culture | Aboriginal peoples | Aboriginal peoples (Australians) | Anthropological specimens | Artefacts | Bernard Woodward | Collecting | Conigrave | Indigenous Australian peoples | John T. Tunney | Kimberley | Letters | Letters (Correspondence) | Lipfert | Morton | Murchison | Northern Territory | Perth | Photographs | Photography | Pilbara | Rothschild | Tunney | Woodward | anthropologists | ethnography |

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