Person

Massola, Aldo Giuseppe (1910 - 1975)

Born
9 September 1910
Rome, Italy
Died
6 July 1975
Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Anthropologist and Museum curator

Summary

Aldo Massola was Curator of Anthropology at the National Museum of Victoria during which time he worked to organise the collections, identifying artefacts, developing more systematic records and compiling bibliographies. He conducted successful field excursions searching for rock paintings about which he published articles in the Victorian Naturalist. In visiting Aboriginal communities he assembled significant oral, written and pictorial material and won the respect of those he visited. The Anthropological Society of Victoria was revived under Massola's presidency.

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Chronology

1954 - 1956
Career position - Temporary Assistant (Anthropology), National Museum of Victoria
1956 - 1965
Career position - Curator of Anthropology, National Museum of Victoria
1959 - 1961
Career position - President, Anthropological Society of Victoria

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Journal Articles

  • Baines, M. A., 'Aldo Massola, Italo-Australian Anthropologist of the Aborigines', The Victorian naturalist, 93 (3) (1976), 91. Details
  • Massola, A., 'In memoriam Leonhard Adam', Oceania, 31 (3) (1961), 161-5. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4461.1961.tb00233.x. Details
  • Massola, A., 'Punta Arenas and Sir Baldwin Spencer's Grave', The Victorian naturalist, 89 (2) (1972), 54-56. Details

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260