Truganini, Oyster Cove station, Tasmania, 1866 slnsw.jpg (Q130394021)
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Albumen print of Truganini at Oyster Cove station, Tasmania, 1866, by Charles Woolley
- Lalla Rookh
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Albumen print of Truganini at Oyster Cove station, Tasmania, 1866, by Charles Woolley |
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Truganini, Oyster Cove station, Tasmania, 1866, by Charles Woolley (English)
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In this photo of Tasmanian Aboriginal woman Truganini (also known as Lallah Rookh), pain and hardship emanate from her eyes. Taken by Australian-born photographer Charles Woolley, it is one of the most published nineteenth-century images of an Aboriginal person. Truganini was photographed in 1866 during her forced residency at Oyster Cove station on the island’s south-east. By this time she had experienced the worst of Europeans, who had killed many of her relatives, occupied her lands and physically and mentally abused her. After her death in 1876, her body was exhumed and displayed in the Tasmanian Museum. In 1976 she was returned to the Aboriginal community. Geoff Barker 2023 (English)