Abstract
This article examines two phenomena of 1930s Victoria: the desire for Aboriginal culture to appear in popular exhibits and centennial celebrations, and visits by members of the public to Lake Tyers Aboriginal Station to view Aboriginal performers and purchase Aboriginal material culture. While different, they are nonetheless connected by a desire to witness the Aborigine as primitive spectacle. They demonstrate that popular interest in Indigenous culture was far more prevalent than has been previously acknowledged. The modernist preoccupation with primitivism, far from being an elitist, intellectual pursuit, was occurring at a very popular level. However, these ideas, while often more sympathetic to Indigenous culture and heritage, still viewed Aboriginal Australians as Other.
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