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...Early relations between Indigenous Australians and the outside world... |
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Bark painting, East Arnhem Land,
Northern Territory, c.1942.
Artist: Wonggo.
A Maccassan Prau - fishing boat from the Indonesian Islands. |
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The Maccassar Story - An Indigenous Australian born in 1893 describes what his father told him and what he remembers of visits by the Macassan (Indonesian) traders who came to the Northern Territory until 1906, his story recorded by Judith Stokes in This is What Happened, by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. - More ... |
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A Maccassan prau - From "The Maccassar Story" Hercus, L & Sutton, P (eds), This is What Happened, Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1986, p 122.
Courtesy of the artist's family, Museum of Victoria, and Mrs D.M.Thomson; from the Donald Thomson collection, on loan to the Museum of Victoria, from the University of Melbourne. - More ... |
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The Maccassans - An interview with Mick Dodson in which he discusses the nature of the Maccassans trading with Asia long before the arrival of the Europeans. - More ... |
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...Early relations between Indigenous Australians and the outside world... |
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