Outrage over sale of sacred Aboriginal stone
"No public museums will display these objects or photograph them" ... Michael Pickering. Photo: Graham Tidy
AN English auction house will today sell off a rare Aboriginal Tjuringa stone, a totem so sacred to indigenous culture than Australian museums refuse to even exhibit them out of respect for indigenous mores.
The sale of the etched oval stone, listed as Lot 825 by the Canterbury Read more [...]