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I am responsible for the management, care and development of the First Peoples Ethnohistory Collection at Museums Victoria. This significant collection comprises photographs, manuscripts, film and sound material spanning 170 years, and represents Indigenous people from all over Australia and internationally.

Key areas of my work comprise registration and cataloguing, information management, developing and implementing preservation strategies, digitisation of collection material, processing new acquisitions and the enhancement of the collections with further documentation and research.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Archaeology, La Trobe University

Links

• Spencer & Gillen - A journey through Aboriginal Australia

ARC Linkage Project; Howitt and Fison’s Anthropology: Using New Methods to Reveal Hidden Riches.

1989 Guide to Victorian aboriginal collections in the Museum of Victoria / compiled by Gaye Sculthorpe with the assistance of Michelle La Combe and Mira Lakic

1992 Domestic Technology in Women's work: Aboriginal women's artefacts in the Museum of Victoria /​Aboriginal Studies Department, Museum of Victoria.

1992 Dress and Ornamentation in Women's work: Aboriginal women's artefacts in the Museum of Victoria /​Aboriginal Studies Department, Museum of Victoria.

1994 Through their eyes : an historical record of Aboriginal people of Victoria as documented by the officials of the Port Phillip protectorate, 1839-1841 / compiled and edited by Mira Lakic and Rosemary Wrench

2005 The Distant View The photographs of Baldwin Spencer /​edited by Philip Batty, Lindy Allen and John Morton.