A shield, used during traditional stick fights between Aboriginal men of the Kowanyama region, has been returned to country more than 60 years after it was "collected" by a group of crocodile hunters.

The British Museum is under fire from a leading activist in Australia over how it now describes an Aboriginal shield at the centre of a restitution battle. The activist Rodney Kelly accuses the ...

Indigenous artist Jonathan Jones holding one of the 15,000 ceramic Aboriginal shields he is installing in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens. Credit: Steven Siewert "We've found from a lot of work and ...

Should works included in a new Aboriginal Australian art exhibition be repatriated to the culture that produced them? The answer is complex, writes Jason Farago. The British Museum in London is ...

Outstanding Aboriginal shields and unusual Oceanic artifacts from a private West Australian collection are expected to fetch lofty prices when offered at auction in Melbourne next month.

Auction house Sotheby's sold an Aboriginal shield for a record $84,000 in Sydney last night. It is believed to be the highest amount paid at auction for an Aboriginal artefact. The kidney-shaped ...

But many, including Shields, ... After an effort to give Aboriginal Australians a modest voice to parliament was resoundingly rejected, many Indigenous peoples are mulling what they can do next.

A first-of-its-kind study has finally revealed how Indigenous Australians delivered deadly strikes with their two iconic weapons.. The research, published in the journal Scientific Reports last ...

Questions are increasingly being raised about the ethics of the original exchanges of Aboriginal artefacts. A shield from the Gweagle people (Botany Bay) acquired on Cooks’s 1770 voyage along ...