The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. |
Cultural material is defined as objects, collections, artworks, specimens, structures or sites, and includes: | archaeological material books and manuscripts built heritage cultural sites and buildings ethnographic material film and audio-visual material flora and fauna furniture photographs technological and industry items textiles works on paper and canvas |
Cultural authorities may include: | Cultural authority refers to the most appropriate senior person/s that is able to speak for particular Country, cultural objects, ceremony and/or materials in a specific place. A cultural authority could be a Traditional Owner, a Native Title Claimant, Aboriginal Culture and Heritage Body, Elder, Aboriginal Land Council, etc. A ceremonial/cultural manager in terms of Aboriginal customary law means someone who does the work either under the direct supervision of the Aboriginal Owner or does the work that is authorised by the Owner. In a ceremony for example, the ceremonial manager(s) may provide the food and do the performance (work). Traditional roles and responsibilities swap over depending on a person’s status in any given situation – ie – whose land / estate one is on for business. |
Cultural knowledgemay include: | Aboriginal land, landscape features, rivers, lakes and sea resources and their uses, and the relationships between plants, animals and individuals, clans and Community Aboriginal beliefs, values, spirituality, language, lore/law, customs, gender roles, kinship networks, factions, moieties, and speaking rights ceremonies, rituals, stories, song, dance and art traditional and current land management practices Aboriginal-sites, places, artefacts, objects, material and landscapes names, locations and meanings Aboriginal cultural protocols Aboriginal cultural heritage the cultural significance of Aboriginal knowledge |
Aboriginal cultural protocols may include: | gender roles in relation to knowledge and cultural practices information sensitivity and access appropriate information transfer negotiations with local Aboriginal Community about information transfer cultural diversity natural resources and their importance for economy, religion, spirituality, art, environment, values, beliefs and lore/law rights and responsibilities associated with cultural knowledge, story, song, Site, and ceremony interpersonal ways of relating the talking of Community politics repatriation of artefacts issues of ownership (clans/nations) ownership of intellectual property acknowledging participation and ownership communicating about cultural material displaying cultural material handling cultural material identifying appropriate people to be consulted occasions when consultation is required ways in which consultations should be conducted |
Objects may include | physical objects such as stone tools, Aboriginal-built fences and stockyards, scarred trees, the remains of fringe camps material deposited on the land, such as middens the ancestral remains of Aboriginal people stones and stone tools art and artworks shells non-human bones and organic materials |
Movement and storage may be: | externally internally (within organisation or same building) short and long distance short and long-term storage |
Organisational procedures and guidelines may relate to: | cleaning conservation environment handling methods national and international standards for moving and storing materials purchasing security storage arrangements |
Specific requirements may relate to: | additional protection cultural protocols, including Indigenous protocols de-acclimatisation periods for sensitive items environmentally controlled packaging object moving equipment object support systems for moving or transfer preventive pest management processes use or non-use of certain items |
Relevant personnel may include: | couriers destination personnel owners of collection material specialist advisers store staff transportation personnel |
Handling and moving equipment may include: | acid-free interleaving or wrapping CD and DVD cases containers coverings cushioning material enclosures folders gloves negative sleeves packing/cotton tape and dispenser protective enclosures, such as: boxes canisters crates tubing protective wrapping, such as: bubble wrap cardboard foam packaging scissors trolleys trucks tools, such as: hammers screw drivers utility knives |
Transportation documentation may include: | delivery details cart notes pro-forma packaging and handling notes inventory instructions |