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Pair of applique lamak E097503 & E097504
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/world-cultural-collections/indonesia/pair-applique-lamak/These long, rectangular cloths ‘lamak’ are designed to drape vertically down the front of a temple shrine or altar, with the top section folded over or attached to the shelf of the shrine as an underlay for offerings.
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Ritual silk cloth (kain cepuk) E097448
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/world-cultural-collections/indonesia/ritual-silk-cloth/This textile belongs to a category of ritual cloths known as cepuk and are made by a method of patterning known as weft-ikat ‘endek’ which involves dyeing the weft threads with a pattern before the textile itself is woven.
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Ceremonial textile (geringsing) E097472
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/world-cultural-collections/indonesia/ceremonial-textile/Geringsing cloths are made using the double ikat method, a demanding process requiring both the warp and weft threads to be bound and dyed so that when woven together they match up to form the design.
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Māori fish hooks
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/pasifika-collections/fish-hooks/maori/Fishing holds profound significance in Te Ao Māori, the Māori world, as evidenced by its creation story.
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Egyptian funerary boat model
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/world-cultural-collections/ancient-egyptian/egyptian-funerary-boat/This Egyptian funerary boat model, made of some 30 parts, is the most complex object in our Egyptian Collection. Purchased at an auction in 1913 by Ernest J. Wunderlich, a trustee of the Australian Museum, it has no documentation or provenance.
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Tongan Ngatu: Bark cloth community collaboration and digitisation
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/cultural-collection-enhancement-project/tongan-ngatu-digitisation/The Australian Museum’s largest object, the Tongan Ngatu (Bark Cloth), was unveiled in full for the first time in 50 years on June 9, 2023 for digitisation.
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Digitisation of objects for Wansolmoana
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/cultural-collection-enhancement-project/wansolmoana-digitisation/A case study of the digitisation of objects for Wansolmoana interactive screens
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