As three Anindikyakwa women from the Gulf of Carpenteria reclaim 176 artefacts, Manchester Museum looks to set the standard for decolonising its collection.
| In a long, airy gallery in Manchester’s Victorian-era, neo-Gothic museum, Noeleen Danjibana Lalara is close to tears.
Anindikyakwa women Maicie Lalara, Noeleen Danjibana Lalara, and Amathea Mamarika at Manchester Museum. Manchester Museum curators visiting the Anindilyakwa people of Groote Eylandt, the Gulf of Carpenteria. “Museums need to face today, not live in the 19th century,” she says. “Even in the last few years, the conversation has shifted not just within museums, but within the wider public.”The repatriation process is “about us unlearning some traditional behaviours … and not holding back, not trying to protect ourselves, our institutions.”
Lalara says the returned artefacts will help sustain the community’s culture – “make it alive, it’s keeping on passing the knowledge on”.As it turns out, most of Worsley’s collection was languishing in the museum’s storerooms rather than on display.
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