Reko Rennie, “Message stick (green)” (2011), hand-pressed metallic textile foil, screenprint, synthetic polymer paint on canvas (photo Sophia Cai/Hyperallergic) Installation view of Reko ...

Remnants of fireplaces and burnt, fat-smeared sticks excavated in a secluded cave in Victoria point to an ancient ritual where a powerful Gunaikurnai doctor, known as a mulla-mullung, cast a spell.

He paid for the obelisk to be carved with motifs of a boomerang, a liangle (fighting club) and a message stick, ... It reads: “In memory of the hundreds of Aboriginal men, women and children who ...

After a long fight, Tasmanian Aboriginal rock carvings are heading back to country. After being stored in museums for 60 years, two ancient Tasmanian Aboriginal petroglyphs are heading home to the ...

This boab engraved with the image of a snake is one of 12 rediscovered during a 2021 expedition into the Tanami Desert in Australia. The carvings have cultural ties to the Jaru, an Aboriginal ...

Researchers are scouring Australia's desert outback to document ancient Aboriginal carvings on massive baobab trees, warning on Wednesday that the recently discovered artwork could soon be lost ...

Five rare "non-returning" boomerangs found in dry riverbed in South Australia were probably used hundreds of years ago to hunt waterbirds, according to a new study.

FOR Tasmanian Aboriginals, the taking of sacred stone carvings from a cultural West Coast site 70 years ago was daylight robbery, says Aboriginal community leader Michael Mansell.

Multiple Facebook users had their accounts blocked or banned over the weekend for sharing an article that featured an image of Australian Aboriginal men in chains, according to a Monday report. A F… ...

Incidents from Cook’s first voyage highlight themes relevant in Indigenous-settler relations today: environmental care, reconciliation and governance. This collision of beliefs, it seems, wasn ...

Over the course of his three voyages, Cook was frustrated by the refusal of Indigenous people to embrace Western ways. He grew increasingly punitive, embodying the ‘savagery’ he ostensibly ...