Dr Rachel Standfield

Lecturer in Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Arts & Culture

Unaipon: Behind the da Vinci comparisons

David Unaipon has been transformed into the Aboriginal polymath. Yet what do these comparisons with da Vinci mean when considered against the backdrop of settler-colonialism?

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