Found: the earliest European image of Aboriginal Australians
- Written by Liz Conor, ARC Future Fellow, La Trobe University
"New Hollanders" depicted in a 1698 edition of the explorer William Dampier's journal. Courtesy of the Pacific Collection, Hamilton Library, University of Hawai'i-Mānoa
The earliest found European image of Aboriginal Australians, engraved in 1698, depicts them resisting their enslavement. Recently discovered in the Hamilton library of Honolulu...
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