The makers and making of indigenous Australian museum collections

Part I: Collecting in its institutional context: collections as artefacts: the making and thinking of anthropological museum collections Leonn Satterthwait --
Reflections in a cracked mirror: what collections representing "them" can say about "us" and the role of museum collections Richard Robins --
An ark of Aboriginal relics: the collecting practices of Dr. L.P. Winterbotham Daniel Leo --
Part II: Collecting under the influence of evolutionism Gentleman collectors: the Port Phillip District, 1835-1855 Elizabeth Willis --
'Annexing all I can lay hands on': Baldwin Spencer as ethnographic collector John Mulvaney The man who collected everything: W.E. Roth Kate Kahn --
The Australian Aboriginal Collection and the Berlin Ethnological Museum Janice Lally --
Talking into the wind: collectors on the Cooper Creek, 1890-1910 Chris Nobbs --
The dynamics of the collector-curator relationship: interpreting Henry Hillier's Central Australian Collections Ian Coates --
'Your obedient servant': the John Tunney Collection at the Western Australian Museum Ross Chadwick --
Professionals and amateurs: different histories of collecting in the National Ethnographic Collection David Kaus --
Part III Before it is too late --
The 'idea behind the artefact': Norman Tindale's early years as a salvage ethnographer Philip Jones --
The reluctant collector: Lloyd Warner Louise Hamby --
Tons and tons of valuable material: the Donald Thomson Collection Lindy Allen --
Only sticks and bark: Ursula McConnel --
her collecting and collection Anne Perusco --
The art of collecting: Charles Pearcy Mountford Dally May --
Ethnographic and archaeological collections by F.D. McCarthy in the Australian Museum Val Attenbrow --
Part IV: Transformed collecting --
'I did not set out to make a collection': the Ronald and Catherine Berndt Collections at the Berndt Museum of Anthropology John Stanton --
'The woman with men's business': Helen Wurm Margie West --
Aesthest and scholar: two complementary influences on the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art collection of the University of Virginia Margo Smith.