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Aboriginal woman and child wearing a kangaroo skin cloak
Title : Aboriginal woman and child wearing a kangaroo skin cloak Aboriginal woman and child wearing a kangaroo skin cloak
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Date of creation : ca. 1875
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Description :

Portrait of an Aboriginal woman 'Teenminnie', in profile, carrying her small child on her back, both wrapped in a kangaroo skin cloak, and she has a walking stick. A later caption provides the name 'Narahminyerie'. She was the first Aboriginal woman convert to Christianity. Photographer was probably Captain Samuel Sweet and the location was probably in Point McLeay Region.


Region : Fleurieu Peninsula
Further reading :
Jenkin, Graham. ['Teenminnie'] Conquest of the Ngarrindjeri : the story of the Lower Murray lakes tribes, 1979. p. 155-157, 161
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