Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization Bird Includes such favourites as the

Includes such favourites as the great white shark

Quarter bound with calf leatherette (reconstituted leather)

The Duck Reach Power Station was built by the Launceston Municipal Council and generated hydro-electricity almost continuously for 60 years – from 1895 to 1955

Exploring practices such as architecture and design

that are integral to knowledges of time

Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization Bird Includes such favourites as theThe arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native America famously inspired twentieth century modernist artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Max Ernst. Was this a cross cultural discovery to be celebrated? Or just one more example of Western colonial appropriation? Possessions, first published in 1999, offered a dynamic and genuinely cross cultural art history, focused on the encounter, or the confrontation, in Australasia between the visual