The paintings depict the landscapes and stories that connected children at the Carrolup Settlement in Western Australia to their homes.
The children were sent to the settlement after being removed from their parents in the 1940s.
The works have been missing for more than 50 years after English woman Florence Rutter gathered the paintings and sold them to New York collector Herbert Mayer.
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Mr Mayer donated them to the city's Colgate University in 1966.
The collection has now been permanently transferred to Perth's Curtin University and will tour Australia in the next year.
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