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| Michael Clifford Quinnell
Adjunct/associate Researcher
Cultural Environments QMS
Queensland Museum (Australia)
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Specialities |
Material Culture, Museums, Rock Art, Torres Strait, Typology, Textiles / Fibre Arts, Tapa, Native Title, Indo-Pacific Prehistory, Ethnographic Encounter, Diasporas, Cultural Heritage, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Art |
Discipline(s) |
Anthropology
Archaeology
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Member of |
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)  European Society for Oceanists (ESfO) |
Geographic administrative areas |
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Geographic places |
Australia (area)
Melanesia
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Historical periods |
Precolonial Australia
First and Early contacts
The Colonial time
20th century
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Experiences |
Museographic Research (1974 to 1993)
— Queensland Museum
Cataloguing Sir William Macgregor's Papuan Collection. Joint selection with PNG National Museum colleagues of artefacts to be repatriated. Supervision of physical return of objects to Port Moresby. Publication of collection story.Museographic Research (1986 to 2011)
— Queensland Museum
Cataloguing Queensland Museum Torres Strait Islander Ailan Kastom Collection. Enhancement and expansion of collection through fieldwork both within mainland Queensland Torres Strait Islander communities and communities on the home islands of the Torres Strait. Repatriation of ancestral remains and secret/sacred objects.
Museographic Research (1995 to 2014)
— Queensland Museum
Together with my colleague and successor Imelda Miller an Australian South Sea Islander identified the ASSI Kastom collection as those artefacts and stories brought from the home islands in Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and parts of PNG brought to Queensland on the same ships as first generation South Sea islanders. Worked with the community to enhance knowledge of South Sea island Kastom. |
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