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Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/sydney-gay-and-lesbian-mardi-gras/The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is an annual event centred around a street parade of up to 20,000 participants. Participants hide or reveal their 'true' identities in a flurry of paint, feathers and glitter.
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Past exhibitions
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/exhibitions/The Australian Museum has long been known for its diverse and fascinating exhibitions. Discover our past exhibition resources online.
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Indigenous Australians: Australia’s First Peoples exhibition 1996-2015
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/exhibitions/indigenous-australians/Learn about the Museum's exhibition Indigenous Australians: Australia’s First People, on display from 1996-2015.
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Rituals of Seduction: Birds of Paradise
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/exhibitions/birds-of-paradise/This exhibition featured a selection of the Museum’s collections from the Southern Highlands, Eastern Highlands and Western Highlands, including a variety of human hair wigs, feathered headdress, judge wigs, shells woven aprons and shell forehead ornaments.
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Trailblazers: Australia’s 50 Greatest Explorers
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/Whether they crossed oceans, tackled jungles, traversed mountains, braved the poles or went to space, our nation’s greatest explorers helped forge the intrepid Australian spirit. Discover the stories of 50 Australian Trailblazers highlighted in this exhibition.
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Headshaping
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/headshaping/Headshaping or binding was practised by a number of cultures and usually involved binding the forehead area of babies for a number of months till the desired shape was attained.
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Footbinding
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/footbinding/Chinese folklore attributes the origins of footbinding to a fox who tried to conceal its paws while assuming the human guise of the Shang Empress. Another version suggests that the Empress had a club foot and insisted that all women bind their feet so that hers became the model for beauty.
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Corsetry - Shaping the waist
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/corsetry-shaping-the-waist/The shaping of the waist, through belting, corseting, girdling or hiding its natural curve, has long held universal interest. What is considered an acceptable shape for the torso is intimately tied up with cultural aesthetics, discipline and social status.
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Henna
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/henna/Henna is a dye made from a flowering plant, Lawsonia inermis, to dye skin, hair and fingernails. It has been used for thousands of years across many cultures as an important part of ceremonys and rituals.
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Tattooing - Earliest examples
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/tattooing-earliest-examples/Tattooed markings on skin and incised markings in clay provide some of the earliest evidence that humans have long practised a wide range of body art.