4 Ningina tunapri

IN 1976, in response to palawa community requests, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) in Hobart became Australia’s first museum to return Aboriginal human remains from collections to the community for proper burial. Today, First Nations staff occupy various positions at TMAG and the museum collaborated with the palawa community when creating their permanent exhibition – ningina

tunapri, which means to share knowledge and understanding.

It leads visitors on a carefully curated journey into some of the history of lutruwita

First Nations and the ongoing connection of palawa to culture.

Teangi Brown, one of TMAG’s Aboriginal learning facilitators, explains: “A lot of it is undoing misconceptions that previous eras have instilled in us.”

TMAG also offers an educative First

Nations Live series on YouTube presented by Teangi and fellow Aboriginal learning facilitator Nicole Smith. Launceston’s Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery now also has a permanent exhibition – The First Tasmanians: Our Stories. Visiting the First Nations galleries of these museums can be useful prior to wukalina Walk.

See: tmag.tas.gov.au for more information.

This traditional bark canoe replica was built based on a model made at Wybalenna in the 1830s or 1840s. Zoe Rimmer, senior curator of Indigenous cultures at TMAG.