From 1950, the Fulbright Program of academic exchange brought a stream of visiting American scholars to Australia and Australians to the USA. The first wave of these scholars to study Aboriginal society and culture, principally through the discipline of anthropology, played a significant role in developing the field of Aboriginal studies, and in bringing Aboriginal art, music and dance into greater public prominence in the 1950s and early 1960s. We reconstruct these exchanges, track the influence of notable scholars and identify the contribution they made to researching, teaching and collecting Aboriginal art. In featuring the role of women who contributed expertise to the field, as postgraduates, senior researchers or as wives accompanying academic husbands, we reveal their importance and expose a little-known feature of the Program. Scholar Ed Ruhe is recognised for bringing his pioneering collection of Aboriginal art to the USA; this article shows he was not alone.

从 1950 年开始，富布赖特学术交流计划将美国学者带到澳大利亚和澳大利亚人到美国。第一波研究土著社会和文化的学者，主要通过人类学学科，在发展土著研究领域以及在 1950 年代和早期将土著艺术、音乐和舞蹈带入更大的公众关注度方面发挥了重要作用1960 年代。我们重建这些交流，追踪著名学者的影响，并确定他们对研究、教学和收藏土著艺术所做的贡献。在突出为该领域贡献专业知识的女性，作为研究生、高级研究人员或作为学术丈夫的妻子的角色时，我们揭示了她们的重要性，并揭示了该计划鲜为人知的特点。学者 Ed Ruhe 因将他开创性的土著艺术收藏带到美国而受到认可；这篇文章表明他并不孤单。