Following the boom of media making by Indigenous people in Australia in recent years the challenges of how to archive and make accessible Indigenous-made materials, as well as repatriate historical and anthropological materials to Indigenous communities, have led to a some interesting community based archiving and multi-media projects. The Mulka Project, is based in...
Over the past several days we have organised Dad’s old photographs and video from Hopevale into family groups and have been visiting different families to show them what we have. In many ways these images are not all that old, others have pulled out old photos that are kept in the Lutheran Archives...
In the ’70′s and ’80s my parents worked as anthropologists (and linguist) in the Aboriginal community of Hopevale. My father, John Haviland, first visited Hopevale in 1970, coming up as a young linguist to work on a detailed study of the Guugu Yimithirr language. Over the next two decades Mum (Leslie Devereaux) and...