ABC NEWS Fri, 15 Oct 1999 7:19 AEST Fears for future of anthropological collection A senior South Australian museum curator says if an auction of about 300 items from the Strehlow anthropological collection goes ahead next week, an important body of work could be lost. The items, including manuscripts and artefacts of the central Australia Arrendte people, are owned by Carl Strehlow, the son of the late professor Theodor Strehlow. Most of the Strehlow collection is housed at the central Australian museum, in Alice Springs, and has been the subject of repeated legal proceedings over who should control it. The South Australian museum curator, Dr Phillip Jones, says there is no guarantee that with a private sale the collection will not be broken up. "It's certainly not the crown jewels of Aboriginal Australia as it's seized upon by some of the media, but significantly it does contain a record of a way of life in central Australia which has been transformed," he said. "It's of immense cultural value in that sense." © 1999 Australian Broadcasting Corporation ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
