
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Darragh, Thomas A. 
A1  - Pullin, V. Ruth 
T1  - Eugene von Gu&#xe9;rard and the Ethnological Museum in Berlin: Correspondence 1878&#x2013;1880
JF  - Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria
JO  - Proc. R. Soc. Vic.
Y1  - 2024
VL  - 135
IS  - 2
SP  - 102
EP  - 126
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/RS23017 
N2  - This paper details the correspondence between nineteenth-century landscape painter Eugene von Gu&#xe9;rard and the Ethnological Museum, Berlin. It includes complete translations of the relevant correspondence from Old German script. The letters contain information on the provenance of the collection of Australian Aboriginal cultural possessions that von Gu&#xe9;rard sold to Berlin, as well as documentation of the items purchased by him on behalf of the museum. They record unexpected cross-cultural exchanges, document the building of individual and institutional collections of First Nations&#x2019; cultural belongings in colonial Victoria and they trace the people and processes involved in the transfer of this collection to a major German museum. The information recorded in the letters has the potential to inform the process of reconnecting specific objects with source communities. 
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