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Donations and sales of material, including Yirawala and Igor Zorich collections

Archive Collections / Robert Edwards / Donations and sales of material, including Yirawala and Igor Zorich collections
Collection: Robert Edwards
Quantity:    20  
Series Identifier: AA 83/05

This series contains the following sub-series:

  1. Correspondence about donations

  2. Yirawala Art

  3. Articles relating to the sale of one of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’s dot paintings, 2007

  4. Igor Zorich collection

  5. Igor Zorich Adelaide Plains shield

  6. The Coondoobluie kingplate

  7. Yirawala bust

  8. Correspondence relating to Yirawala

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Included Items
AA83/5/1/1 - Correspondence about donations - Correspondence between Christopher Anderson and Edwards relating to Melville Island report, published papers and books
AA83/5/1/2 - Correspondence about donations - A letter to Edwards from Lester Russell seeking his expertise in relation to the return of an axehead
AA83/5/1/3 - Correspondence about donations - A letter to Peter F Jarman from Edwards thanking him for an axehead, 13 August 1969
AA83/5/1/4 - Correspondence about donations - Correspondence between P A Clarke and Edwards relating to recent additions to the South Australian Museum’s tjuringa collections
AA83/5/1/5 - Correspondence about donations - Typed notes about donations
AA83/5/1/6 - Correspondence about donations - A letter to Edwards from P A Clarke relating to the return of secret sacred materials like tjuringas, includes a list of items, 7 December 1983
AA83/5/2/1 - Documents relating to Yirawala Art - Correspondence relating to the Aboriginal artist, Yirawala, and ownership of a collection of his art, 1971-1973
AA83/5/2/2 - Documents relating to Yirawala Art - Newspaper cuttings relating to the Aboriginal artist, Yirawala, and ownership of a collection of his art, 1963-1990
AA83/5/3/1 - Articles relating to the sale of one of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’s dot paintings, 2007
AA83/5/4/1 - Documents relating to Igor Zorich collection - Correspondence relating to the gifting of an artefact to the South Australian Museum by Olga Zorich from the collection of her father, Igor Zorich, 1986-2010
AA83/5/4/2 - Documents relating to Igor Zorich collection - The certificate of donation for artefacts from the collection of Igor Zorich to the South Australian Museum
AA83/5/4/3 - Documents relating to Igor Zorich collection - Inventory of donation from the collection of Igor Zorich
AA83/5/5/1 - Documents relating to Igor Zorich (Adelaide Plains shield) - Correspondence relating to the acquisition by the South Australian Museum of an Adelaide Plains shield from the collection of Igor Zorich, 2007
AA83/5/5/2 - Documents relating to Igor Zorich (Adelaide Plains shield) - Extracts from academic literature relating to aboriginal shields
AA83/5/5/3 - Documents relating to Igor Zorich (Adelaide Plains shield) - A booklet from the South Australian Museum entitled ‘Ngurunderi: An Aboriginal Dreaming’
AA83/5/5/4 - Documents relating to Igor Zorich (Adelaide plains shield) - An exhibition booklet on ‘Australia: The land, the people’ from the Royal Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, 2005-2007
AA83/5/6/1 - The Coondoobluie kingplate - Photocopy of a booklet about the Coondoobluie kingplate for auction
AA83/5/6/2 - The Coondoobluie kingplate - A letter to Suzanna Evans from Baiba Irving, Mitchell Librarian, relating to the Coondoobluie kingplate, 1981
AA83/5/7/1 - Documents relating to Yirawala bust - Correspondence, documentation and newspaper cuttings relating to the return of the ‘Yirawala bust’ c.1975-1978
AA83/5/8/1 - Correspondence relating to Yirawala - Correspondence and newspaper cuttings relating to the purchase from Mrs Sandra Holmes of Yirawala’s bark paintings and bronze bust, 1971-1974.