Many archival collections revolve around non-Indigenous collectors who have recorded and accumulated material over their lifetime.
In collaboration with the Centre for Australian Languages and Linguistics (CALL) at Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, we developed a pilot “person-centred collection”. Person-centred collections reframe our focus and enhance our understanding of collection items by showing them as the cohesive work of an Indigenous knowledge holder. The Arne ingkerreke apurtelhe ileme (Gathering all the things together) project brought together the incredible life’s work of Veronica Perrurle Dobson (AM).