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Aboriginal child holding a Scribbled Angelfish, on the beach at Yirrkala.

"As we sat at meals, we could look across the tumbling waters, and watch the Aboriginal children at play, shooting the breakers in their small canoes, spearing fish, or making figures in the glistening sand."

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