One of the most affecting and unsettling things I have ever seen
By Rohan Long Published on May 28, 2024 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of people who have died. It also includes distressing descriptions and derogatory terms for Indigenous people used in their historical context. It is difficult to convey to a modern audience how commonplace and necessary collections of human remains – particularly non-European human remains – were considered to be in nineteenth and twentieth-century museum culture.
