It's the artwork that has been deemed too sensitive and potentially, too controversial to be displayed out in the open.
And yet, the National Museum of Australia couldn't ignore the importance of including the piece in its new exhibition, Talking Blak to History, particularly in the time of Black Lives Matter.
It has been about 15 years since the museum acquired Douglas Scott's Blood Cries Out for Justice but Monday will be the first time it will be displayed.
Even then, viewers will have to press a button to view the work behind tinted glass, within a sectioned off part of the exhibition.
The reason for this is that the work, which was created by Letty Scott, depicts photos of her husband Douglas Scott's body after he died in custody, which The Canberra Times has chosen to blur.
It was concluded that Mr Scott died by suicide, which was then supported by the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody.
However, Ms Scott told the museum that expert advice had found the photos to be forensic proof that her husband was hung.
"[Ms Scott] said, 'The criminal justice system has let us down, the government's let us down, the Royal Commission's let us down. Now I'm going around to all the museums and seeing if they will put this up on the wall so we can start educating the people about this injustice'," the museum's head of Indigenous knowledges curatorial centre Margo Neale said.
"She went everywhere, and we're the only ones who took it. I did say to her, it's the sort of painting that you put up at a time where it matters. At a time like Black Lives Matter - a people's movement.
"So we took it on and we were basically waiting for its moment."
The artwork is not the only piece in Talking Blak to History that has been waiting for its chance to be displayed.
One of the first pieces in the exhibition is the 1997 Queenie McKenzie artwork, Mistake Creek Massacre, which depicts the 1915 incident in which eight Indigenous people were killed in the eastern Kimberley.
While the fact the killings occurred is largely uncontested, there has been debate about whether the killing party included any Europeans.
"Overall, the exhibition is depicting Aboriginal people's experience of history and how it shaped their lives," Ms Neale said.
"It's critical [to show these pieces] because we are responding to an urgent Aboriginal community need to support the cases of injustice through art.
"And it's not even us saying let's go to the store and find a work that will support Black Lives Matter.
"Letty Scott challenged the museum to put its money where its mouth is and prove that we do address Aboriginal experiences however difficult it might be for us in terms of audiences who aren't always sympathetic."
Other poignant objects in the exhibition include a soft drink can modified for petrol sniffing with an accompanying 1984 painting Sad Boys Are Sniffing by Vanessa Nampitjinpa Brown, and the large dressing gown given to John Kundereri Moriarty when he was a small child at St Francis House Children's Home in Adelaide in 1950.
Talking Blak to History is in the National Museum of Australia's lower First Australians gallery and will be open to the public from Monday.
