C Proper, an Aboriginal man traveling with W.J. Darling, was described as being of the country near Circular Head'

Placename

Sawyer Bay, Tasmania

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Other

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Circular Head to Woolnorth

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Aboriginal man Proper

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Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 99

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634

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C Introduction to Jackey, an Aboriginal woman 'interesting appearance, neatly dressed, and having her hair cut off, according to the common custom'. Jackey, who had had been living with sealers on Stack Island, had a 'mild expression' 'beclouded by sadness'. She spoke seldomly and 'in a low tone'. The sealers 'appeared to treat her kindly, but there was something in their manners that excited suspicion'. Jackey was a country woman of Jumbo, with whom she 'laughed heartily and entered freely into conversation'. Jackey agreed to be relocated to Flinders Island.

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Stack Island

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Other

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Circular Head to Woolnorth

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Aboriginal woman Jackey

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Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 99

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634

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C At the Circular Head jetty, an Aboriginal woman named Maria was 'rescued' from sealers, along with her baby.

Placename

Stanley Jetty, Tasmania

Type

Other

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Circular Head to Woolnorth

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Aboriginal woman Maria

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Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 100

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634

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C Met with George A Robinson & Edward Curr, Superintendent of the Van Diemen's Land Company, whose home, garden and fields in 'almost every other object but the Gum-trees', resembled England.

Placename

Stanley, Tasmania

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Other

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Circular Head to Woolnorth

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George A Robinson; Edward Curr

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Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 100

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634

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C Two ships, Fanny and Charlotte sailed for Woolnorth, 'passed northward of Robbin Island, and of the small islands between it and Three Hummock, or the East Hunter Island, and anchored on the west of Stack Island'. While they 'heard some dogs, but saw no person' on Stack Island, but later learned 'that a native woman was there, who had concealed herself by order of the sealers, notwithstanding she would have been glad to have escaped from them: they subsequently carried her off to Kangaroo Island'.

Placename

Stack Island, Tasmania

Type

Other

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Circular Head to Woolnorth

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Aboriginal woman; Kangaroo Island; Sealers

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Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 100

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634

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C The Charlotte was anchored at Woolnorth Bay in preparation to transport Aboriginal people 'collected by G.A. Robinson, from Barren Island, where he had left them'.

Placename

Woolnorth Bay, Tasmania

Type

Other

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Circular Head to Woolnorth

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Aboriginal people

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Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 101

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634

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C Greeted by Samuel Reeves, Superintendent with the Van Diemen's Land Company and surgeon James Richardson at Woolnorth, where there were 'only a few weather-boarded buildings'.

Placename

Woolnorth, Tasmania

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Other

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Circular Head to Woolnorth

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Superintendent Samuel Reeves; Surgeon James Richardson

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Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 101

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634

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C At Cape Grim the 'whole scenery is in harmony with the name of the place'.

Placename

Cape Grim, Tasmania

Type

Other

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Circular Head to Woolnorth

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Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 101

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634

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C The 'Wandering Albatross rears is young on Albatross Island, where it sits on its eggs til knocked down by the sealers for the sake of its feathers' which were 'sold for about 9d a pound'. A single bird could yield about a pound of feathers and nearly 1,000 Albotrosses were said to have been killed on this island in 1831, with some of the birds 'stunned, plucked, and cruelly left to linger'.

Placename

Albatross Island, Tasmania

Type

Other

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Circular Head to Woolnorth

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Birds; Albatross

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Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 102

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634

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C The kelp on Albatross Island was 'of gigantic magnitude' and it was converted by Aboriginal people into vessels for carrying water'.

Placename

Albatross Island, Tasmania

Type

Other

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Circular Head to Woolnorth

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Aboriginal people

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Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 103

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634

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C Mutton fish were 'met with abundantly' and Aboriginal women would dive for them in deep water, 'force them from the rocks by means of a wooden chisel' and bring them up in an oval bag 'suspended round their necks'.

Placename

Albatross Island, Tasmania

Type

Other

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Circular Head to Woolnorth

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Aboriginal women

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Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 103

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634

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C At Woolnorth, Backhouse & Walker met with a party of Aboriginal peope who arrived from Barren Island where they had been 'under the charge of Anthony Cottrell, G. A. Robinson's assistant'. These Aboriginal people 'had been with G. A. Robinson, on the west coast' and an Aboriginal woman was described as 'the sole relick of a tribe that inhabited the western side of the Huon River, on the south coast'. When Backhouse asked her 'what became of the people of her country', she answered 'They all died'. When asked 'what killed them', an 'aged man of the Bruny Island tribe, who is one of their doctors' replied 'The Devil'. When asked how this was managed, the Aboriginal woman 'began to cough violently' to demonstrate 'how they were affected' and she said that the 'rest were all dead', so she had made a raft to cross D'Entrecasteaux Channel to Bruny Island, 'and joined a tribe there'.

Placename

Woolnorth, Tasmania

Type

Other

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Circular Head to Woolnorth

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Aboriginal people; Aboriginal woman; Anthony Cottrell; George Augustus Robinson

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Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 103

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634

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C At Woolnorth, Backhouse & Walker interviewed an Aboriginal man they described as 'an old Doctor' who 'was smeared and streaked with red ochre and grease, with which his beard was also dressed'.

Placename

Woolnorth, Tasmania

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Other

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Circular Head to Woolnorth

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Aboriginal man

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Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 103

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634

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C While 'sitting by the fire' with Aboriginal women who were 'making the oval bags of open work, used in fishing' Backhouse observed an Aboriginal woman 'looking carefully about among the grass'. She was seeking a needle and 'A. Cottrell, who say by, said, You will see she will find it: you have no idea how keen sighted and persevering they are', and 'after some time she picked up her needle, which was one of English manufacture, and not of large size!'

Placename

Woolnorth, Tasmania

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Other

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Circular Head to Woolnorth

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Aboriginal women; Anthony Cottrell

Source

Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 103-104

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634

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C A Aboriginal woman at Woolnorth was 'arranging several stones that were flat, oval, and about two inches wide, and marked in various directions with black and red lines'. These stones 'represented absent friends, and, one larger than the rest, a corpulent woman on Flinders Island, known by the name of Mother Brown'.

Placename

Woolnorth, Tasmania

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Other

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Circular Head to Woolnorth

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Aboriginal women; Mother Brown

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Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 104

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634

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C Anthony Cottrel, assistant to George Augustus Robinson, offered information to Backhouse & Walker regarding the family structure, body marking, and burial practices of Aboriginal peoples of Van Diemen's Land

Placename

Woolnorth, Tasmania

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Other

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Circular Head to Woolnorth

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Aboriginal people; Anthony Cottrell

Source

Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 104-106

Link

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634

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