Two hundred and thirty years is a long time to be separated from your culture. This has been the case for the Palawa, Tasmanian Aboriginal people, but an exhibition at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), taypani milaythina-tu: Return to Country, is seeking to change that.
About five years in the planning, the exhibition brings together 12 objects from the UK, another from Chicago (US), as well as two culturally significant rikawa (kelp water carriers) – one of which arrived this week from France. They are the only two known rikawa in existence today; this week’s addition had been thought lost after being mislabelled for more than 100 years.
