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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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History
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/Find out about the history of the Museum’s zoological and anthropological collections, its historic and contemporary buildings and the people who have worked here over nearly two centuries.
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Papua New Guinea Scarification
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/papua-new-guinea-scarification/In Papua New Guinea, scarification is usually related to initiation. In the middle Sepik region, it is believed that migrating ancestral crocodiles established human populations.
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Aboriginal Scarification
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/aboriginal-scarification/In Australia, scarring was practised widely, but is now restricted almost entirely to parts of Arnhem Land. Scarring is like a language inscribed on the body, where each deliberately placed scar tells a story of pain, endurance, identity, status, beauty, courage, sorrow or grief.
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Mt Hagen - Papua New Guinea Festival
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/mt-hagen-papua-new-guinea-festival/In the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, self-decoration is associated with festivals and ceremonies where people reinforce their identity as members of a group or clan. One of the most important occasions for ceremonial display is the Mount Hagen Festival.
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The Meaning of Ta Tau - Samoan Tattoing
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/the-meaning-of-ta-tau-samoan-tattoing/The word tatau (tattoo) in Samoan means appropriate, balanced and fitting.
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