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Controversy over Aboriginal sacred stone

By AG staff with AAP • 8 September 2011

Arrernte women dancing with painted bodies during an ‘unintha’ corroboree in 1901. (Credit: Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer)

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An Aboriginal object so sacred that for a woman to see it “would mean death” has been put up for auction in the UK.

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