HANOVER, NH.- The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College announced an important private gift of contemporary Aboriginal art. Will Owen and Harvey Wagner have gifted over three hundred works to the museum, representing the many exciting contemporary art-making practices of Aboriginal peoples across the Australian continent. These objects, in styles both traditional and contemporary, are by artists from remote Outback communities as well as major metropolitan centers, and they span six decades of creative activity. The Owen and Wagner Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art includes acrylic paintings on linen and canvas, earthen ochre paintings on bark, board, and canvas, sculpture in a variety of media, weavings of palm fibers and parrot feathers, and artifacts. The Hood Museum of Art already has distinguished art