Aboriginal Rock Art: Connecting Country and Community

Title: Aboriginal Rock Art: Connecting Country and Community

Summary: The Engineering and Information Technology Cultural Collection holds a significant collection of photographs of Aboriginal rock art sites taken in the 1970s and 1980s. The photographs document the conditions of the rock art sites and are an important archive, as rock art is subject to constant deterioration and sometimes major destruction.

This project aims to first identify the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the collection of images. The team will then work with the Custodians to enable access and respond to their priorities for the images – this may include digitisation, interpretation, documentation, and/or repatriation.