Poster relating to Aboriginal Hostels 30th anniversary

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Type: Posters
Materials: Ink, MDF - Medium Density Fibreboard, Paper
Collection: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Art (ATSIAA) collection no. 2
Accession number: 2014.0069.0007

Description

A poster featuring a black and white photograph of a man holding a group of pearls in his hands. The words 'SUPPORT PROVIDE INSPIRE' are below the mans hands and have a black, yellow and red background. Below the picture is an 'ABORIGINAL HOSTELS LIMITED 1973-2003' logo including a house in the colours of the Aboriginal flag. The poster has a black mat board border, and is on a piece of MDF which has black text on the back with framing instructions.

About the collection

The collection is comprised of 35 objects including prints, photographs, woven materials, a cricket trophy and other items. The ATSIAA 2 collection is an adjunct to the original, much larger Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Art collection, (ATSIAA), collected between 1967 and 2005 by employees of a number of Indigenous government bodies. The larger collection is comprised of 2313 objects. The material in the current collection did not appear on the original inventory and was not stored with the original items. The objects were located in a storeroom within the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs in 2010. It is however, indisputably linked to the original ATSIAA collection. All the items are in good or reasonable condition. The collection is significant as it complements the original collection and fills geographical and stylistic gaps in the NMA's collection of cultural material relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. It also includes some provenanced objects that may prove useful in documenting some of the existing ATSIAA material. The accrual of these two collections has resulted from the choices and selections made during a 38 year period by a variety of staff working for the Council for Aboriginal Affairs (CAA), the Department of Aboriginal Affairs (DAA), the Aboriginal Development Commission (ADC) and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) at the national, regional and local levels. The collections span the years following the 1967 referendum, when dramatic changes in the governance of Aboriginal people took place, up to 2005 when the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission was dissolved. As well as the significance of many of the individual pieces, the ATSIAA collection 2 is also significant, as a complex artefact stemming from Australia's history of governance of Australian Indigenous peoples.

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