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tasmania: breaking the immemorial monotony
…Inevitably, this forceful community, gradually spreading from its seashore settlements, came into contact with the elusive aborigines of the forest. It was known from the start that they existed. When Dutch sailor Abel Tasman arrived off the southeast coast in … Continue reading
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Tagged Abel Tasman Tasmania, Benjamin Duterreau, Captain Bligh the Bounty, captain cook, Francois Peron Tasmania, George Augustus Robinson, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Lyndall Ryan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marion du Fresne French navigator, Nicholas Baudin explorer, Tasmania history, Tasmanian genocide, William Lanney
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washed ashore and white
The white man cometh. To every distant shore, some time in the last half millennium, the light skinned stranger came, bearing the gift they thought was Western civilization. His image, for the most part, as seen by the native artists … Continue reading
getting the point
Their knives recall a vanished group of master craftsmen… They are functional and yet mysterious pieces of sculpture. Iron inlays that seem to gaze at the world with the absolute self-assurance of a great work of primitive art. The tails … Continue reading
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