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Trumble Tour - part 3

Trucaninny and Woureddy, video: 1 minute 6 seconds

Video transcript

By the time Benjamin Law created these two fine noble busts of Trucaninny and Woureddy, Tasmanian Aborigines, leading members of their people, the fate of those very people had been sealed both by a combination of cack-handed local administration and the depredations of the settlers. The Tasmanian experience was a microcosm of the whole, and in a sense, Trucaninny and Woureddy stand in these galleries for the wider experience of 50 years of crisis between the collision of a colonising people and the pre-existing societies that predated their arrival by millennium.

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