Described from left to right: a diorama, display case of basketry, fishing nets, coolamons (carrying tools), immediately in front of this is two canoes on in a display case. Central wall has an extensive display of shields and boomerangs. Above both wall displays are bark paintings hung from the wall. Both the basketry and weaponry displays have one or two photographs of items in use.
In the centre of the room large display cases hold small items.
An upright case in the centre of the room is a case holding a plaster bust with a head-dress [and potentially funerial items].
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National Museum of Victoria, Baldwin Spencer Hall of Australian Ethnology (1950), [UMA-IT-000116652]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 30/04/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/593811
