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Cultural sensitivity Deceased persons

In some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, hearing recordings, seeing images or the names of deceased persons may cause sadness or distress and in some cases, offend against strongly held cultural prohibitions

https://aiatsis.gov.au/cultural-sensitivity

I'm not fully versed in the complexities of this, but there's a taboo about depicting deceased Mob / Blak Fellas, this can extend to using a different name / not using their name, not depicting them in recordings, photographs, the like

it's important to be aware that during the more open colonial period, photographs like this were staged, likely coerced in contexts with limited consent. There's a lot like this where photographers have posed people beating women, and in other ways to justify their preconceived ideads about the natives they were actively involved in displacing

remembering this was at a time colonists did not consider Aboriginals as human, were stealing their bodies, selling their bones to museums, and treating them as animals

I encourage everyone to do some reading about this, and educate yourselves about cultures that have little to no understanding of