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Aboriginal treasures at the Vatican
Dr Margo Neale, National Museum of Australia
1 December 2010
Margo talks about the new exhibition of Aboriginal artworks sent from Catholic missions in the north and west of Australia to the Vatican that recently opened at the Vatican’s Ethnological Museum and coincided with the canonisation of St Mary MacKillop.
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