Elements and Performance Criteria
- Conduct background research and consultation with Traditional Owners, Community, Cultural Managers/Knowledge holders
- Confirm traditional ownership of cultural material and objects and consult appropriate Owners or Cultural Managers and Communities
- Identify gender requirements for consultations, handling of and access to materials according to Aboriginal cultural protocols
- Consult with Traditional Owner/s, Community groups and experts to determine suitable holding for materials not authorised for general exhibition
- Obtain permissions from cultural authorities for access and use of Aboriginal secret, sacred and ceremonial materials
- Consult with Community to determine culturally appropriate handling of material and any limitations on access to materials
- Demonstrate confidentiality and neutrality in consultations and dealings with Traditional Owners and Cultural Managers
- Handle Aboriginal secret sacred cultural material
- Allow for and carry out any required Ceremony and procedure associated with seeing, handling or moving the material
- Identify, move, store, maintain and return cultural material according to Aboriginal cultural requirements and enter into agreements
- Note aspects of cultural material requiring repair or attention and pass onto supervisor or person with relevant expertise
- Communicate specific Aboriginal cultural requirements to colleagues
- Select and use appropriate handling and moving equipment according to safe work practices and to protect sacred and ceremonial material
- Adhere to cultural restrictions and limitations on secret, sacred and ceremonial material
- Demonstrate handling cultural material in a manner that protects individual items, assists efficient loading and unloading processes if moving, and in accordance with safe work practices
- Handle, move, store and manage secret sacred cultural material in accordance with Burra Charter guidelines and legislative requirements
- Contribute to documenting a generational succession plan for passing on ownership of secret sacred material