List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Molly Duggins (National Art School, Sydney, Australia), Mark De Vitis (The University of Sydney, Australia), Georgina Cole ( National Art School, Sydney, Australia) Part One: Living Objects 1. Ngubadi Warura: Stringing it All Together, Shannon Foster (D'harawal Saltwater Knowledge Keeper, the University of Technology Sydney, Australia) 2. Sylvan Eyelash of Australian Waters: Guman/Casuarina glauca in Wuganmagulya/Farm Cove, Michael Hill (National Art School, Sydney, Australia) Part Two: Collecting Objects 3. Country and Colony in the Macquarie Collector's Chest, Shane Frost (Awabakal Elder and Indigenous historian) and Molly Duggins (National Art School, Sydney, Australia) 4. Royal Booties: Aboriginal Shell-Slippers at Buckingham Palace, Maria Nugent (the Australian National University) Part Three: Migrating Objects 5. Who's Been Sleeping in my Bed? Californian-made Furniture in Australia from the 1880s to 2020s, Mark De Vitis (The University of Sydney, Australia) 6. 'With Compliments of Mr & Mrs Quong Tart': Chinese-Australian Identity in the Gallop House Photomontage Print, Shuxia Chen (University of NSW, Australia) 7. Diasporic Objects: Resounding the Past, James Nguyen and Victoria Pham (Independent Scholars and Artists) Part Four: Monumental Objects 8.

Casting Shadows: Speculative Impressions of a Captain Cook Monument, Julia Lum (Scripps College, Claremont, USA) 9. Appropriation, Pluralism and Interconnection in the 'Australia' Signs for Expo '88, Priya Vaughan and Mark De Vitis (The University of Sydney, Australia) Part Five: Immaterial Objects 10. Spinning a Golden Boomerang out of Thin Air, Anita Callaway (The University of Sydney, Australia) 11. Chosen Vessels: Clay and Spirit in the Ceramics of Anne Dangar, Georgina Cole and Shane Haseman (National Art School, Australia) 12. The Sky Is the Same: (Dis)orientation and (Be)longing, Ali Tahayori, Independent Scholar and Artist Epilogue, David Hansen Index.