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Pair of applique lamak E097503 & E097504
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/international-collection/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/international-collection/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/international-collection/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/international-collection/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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Dissolved Oxygen
https://australian.museum/get-involved/citizen-science/streamwatch/dissolved-oxygen/Chemical reactions for dissolved oxygen test
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Australopithecus sediba
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/australopithecus-sediba/This hominin species was announced in 2010 and has scientists hotly debating its validity as a species and its relationships to other hominins, in particular its relationship to our genus Homo.
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Sahelanthropus tchadensis
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/sahelanthropus-tchadensis/Claimed as one of the most significant discoveries in the field of human evolution, the fossils possibly represent the oldest known human ancestor after the split of the human line from that of the chimpanzees. However, this is hotly debated.
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