Aboriginal artifacts

More than 150 objects held at London’s British Museum since being collected in Australia, many from the times of earliest contact between indigenous peoples (Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders) and nonindigenous people (British), will return to Australia for the exhibit “Encounters,” Nov. 1, 2015-March 28, 2016.

Among the objects are a wooden shield believed to have been taken by James Cook in 1770, a mid-1840s Tasmanian shell necklace and an 1870s dilly bag. 

National Museum of Australia (Lawsen Crescent, Acton Peninsula, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia; phone +61 2 6208 5000, www.nma.gov.au). Open daily, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is free. (The exhibit first runs in London until Aug. 2, 2015.