Lindy Allen

Djalkiri - Yolŋu art, collaborations and collections

Lindy Allen, Mary Louise Hamby

Journal article  |  2022  |  Museum Ethnographers

Djalkiri - Yolŋu art, collaborations and collections is an elegantly designed book released to coincide with one of the opening ex..

"The Not-So Sacred Ibis": Archibald Meston, The Colonial Collector, and the Queensland Museum

Lindy Allen, Sophie Price, Chantal Knowles

Journal article  |  2021  |  Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Culture

This paper focuses on Archibald Meston’s association with Queensland Museum through a detailed analysis of the collections and the..

Museum Collections and Their Legacies

Lindy Allen

Book Chapter  |  2021

Museums continue to be cast as anachronistic—‘weary’, ‘tired’, and ‘out of touch’—trophy houses embedded in the colonial past, wit..

Djalkiri - Yolŋu art, collaborations and collections

Lindy Allen, Mary Louise Hamby

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of the Oceanic Art Society

Djalkiri-Yolŋu art, collaborations and collections is an elegantly designed book produced to coincide with the exhibition Gululu d..

Creating a Sample Book of Glass Beads Used in the Western Pacific in the Colonial Era: An Interim Report

Lindy Allen, Elizabeth Bonshek

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF GLASS STUDIES

The Rakow Grant for Glass Research (2019) has enabled us to build on a previous study of objects with glass beads from the western..

Palm Trees and Sunshine: The Inspection Tour of Aboriginal Missions and Reserves in North Queensland, 1931

Lindy Allen, Michael Aird

Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival  |  2019

Kanalaritja – An Unbroken String: Honouring the Tradition of Tasmanian Aboriginal Shell Stringing

Lindy Allen

Journal article  |  2018  |  Australian Historical Studies

Finding the Signatures of Glass Beads: A Preliminary Investigation of Indigenous Artefacts from Australia and Papua New Guinea

Lindy Allen, Sarah Babister, Elizabeth Bonshek, Rosemary Goodall

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia

Formal analysis and testing of glass beads in Indigenous museum objects has the potential to contribute significantly to our under..

Obituary - Commitment to Justice Alan West 1929 - 2017

Robert McWilliams, Melanie Raberts, Mira Morris, Lindy Allen

Journal article  |  2017  |  The Artefact

On 7th June 2017, Mr Alan West of Mitcham, Victoria, passed away at the age of 88. Alan’s life was long and rich. As a teacher, an..

A history of the art of Milingimbi

Lindy Allen, Mary Louise Hamby

Book Chapter  |  2016

Milingimbi Art draws exclusively on the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ impressive holdings of around 230 works collected at the f..