Secret-sacred

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    In Australian Aboriginal culture, restricted to initiated men, or to women; not public knowledge. not-comparable

    "2001, Moira G. Simpson, Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era Most major Australian museums now hold secret/sacred material in a separate storage area, with access restricted to specified curatorial staff and to those members of the relevant Aboriginal community who have the right to view such material."

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secret and sacred

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"2001, Moira G. Simpson, Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era Most major Australian museums now hold secret/sacred material in a separate storage area, with access restricted to specified curatorial staff and to those members of the relevant Aboriginal community who have the right to view such material."

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