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Mt Hagen - Papua New Guinea Festival
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/mt-hagen-papua-new-guinea-festival/In the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, self-decoration is associated with festivals and ceremonies where people reinforce their identity as members of a group or clan. One of the most important occasions for ceremonial display is the Mount Hagen Festival.
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History
https://australian.museum/about/history/Find out about the history of the Museum’s zoological and anthropological collections, its historic and contemporary buildings and the people who have worked here over nearly two centuries.
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Indigenous Australians: Australia’s First Peoples exhibition 1996-2015
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/indigenous-australians/Learn about the Museum's exhibition Indigenous Australians: Australia’s First People, on display from 1996-2015.
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Rituals of Seduction: Birds of Paradise
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/birds-of-paradise/This exhibition featured a selection of the Museum’s collections from the Southern Highlands, Eastern Highlands and Western Highlands, including a variety of human hair wigs, feathered headdress, judge wigs, shells woven aprons and shell forehead ornaments.
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Trailblazers: Australia’s 50 Greatest Explorers
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/Whether they crossed oceans, tackled jungles, traversed mountains, braved the poles or went to space, our nation’s greatest explorers helped forge the intrepid Australian spirit. Discover the stories of 50 Australian Trailblazers highlighted in this exhibition.
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Richard 'Dick' Smith AC
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/richard-dick-smith-ao/The first person to fly a helicopter solo around the world.
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Andy Thomas AO
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/andy-thomas-ao/Australia’s first member of NASA’s elite astronaut corps.
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Body disposal - legal procedures
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/body-disposal-legal-procedures/Certain procedures must be carried out in order to dispose of a human body, including arranging for a funeral, certifying that a person is dead and what the cause of death was, as well as registering the death.
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Cosmetic surgery
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/cosmetic-surgery/Cosmetic surgery is a type of plastic surgery which changes the normal physical features people are born with. Plastic surgery also includes medical reconstructive surgery which repairs physical damage to the body or genetic abnormalities.
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