Introduction: Putting the Pieces Together
OBJECTS AND TEXTS
Tasmanian Hairy-Cicada, Tettigarcta tomentosa
Thomas Bock, Woureddy, Native of Bruny Island, Van Diemen’s Land
from the diary of George Augustus Robinson, 7 July 1831
from Helen Hodgman, Blue Skies
Baskets Made by Tasmanian Aboriginal Women
Probable Basket-Makers from the 1800s
Andrew Sant, ‘A Turn of the Century Sewing Machine’ & Margaret Scott, ‘Mending a Dress’
from Hesba Brinsmead-Hungerford, I Will Not Say the Day Is Done
Malcolm W. Harrison Egg Collection
from Geoffrey Dean, ‘The Egg Thief’
Annie Benbow, Aborigines, Oyster Cove 1847
from Ida West, Pride against Prejudice
Benjamin Duterrau, The Conciliation
from Greg Lehman, ‘Tasmanian Gothic: The Art of Australia’s Forgotten War’
from Ben Walter, A Guide to Bushwalking in Tasmania: Twenty-Five Short Walks
from Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Closing Hell’s Gates: The Death of a Convict Station
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright’s Petition to the Governor, April 1844
from Carmel Bird, Fair Game: A Tasmanian Memoir
from Caroline Leakey, The Broad Arrow
Scrimshaw, Sperm Whale Tooth with Tasmanian Devil and a Cross
Eric Beach, ‘west coast perambulation’
Whalebone Ship Model, Lady Emma
from Matthew Kneale, English Passengers
Devil’s Tongue Weed (Japanese Slipperyweed, Red Lettuce), Grateloupia turuturu
Proclamation Board to the Tasmanian Aborigines
from Jim Everett, ‘A Short Trip with Shorty O’Neill’
from Jennifer Livett, Wild Island
from Richard Davey, Hallelujah Lady Jane
Pete Hay, ‘Emu Eats the Future (Dark Dreaming in the City of Light)’
Silver Banksia, Banksia marginata
from Captain James Cook, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean
from Errol Flynn, My Wicked, Wicked Ways
from Helene Chung, Ching Chong China Girl: From Fruitshop to Foreign Correspondent
from Paul Daffey, ‘Footy at the Gravel Is Cutting Edge Stuff’
Australian Force Vietnam Badge
from James McQueen, Hook’s Mountain
Harry Buckie, Okehampton Kitchen
Barney Roberts, ‘The House Now Shorn in Two’
Molten Pennies & Serving Plate
from Joan Woodberry, Ash Tuesday
from Christopher Koch, The Boys in the Island
Violet Mace, Governor Davey’s Proclamation Board Cup
Annette Peardon, Address to the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 13 August 1997
MV Loatta Being Loaded with Muttonbird Oil at Babel Island, Lantern Slide by Sidney Charles Brammall
from Patsy Adam-Smith, Moonbird People
Fanny Cochrane Smith’s Wax Cylinders
Fanny Cochrane Smith Recording Her Tasmanian Aboriginal Language
Karen Brown, ‘My Mother, the Shell Necklace Maker’
Joan Wise, ‘Poison in the Furrow’
from Mrs Mary G. Roberts, ‘The Keeping and Breeding of Tasmanian Devils (Sarcophilus harrisi)’
from Heather Rose, White Heart
Anthony Lawrence, ‘The Wattlebird’ & James McAuley, ‘In the Orchard’
from Marjorie Bligh, Life Is for Living
Emily Ferrar, Thylacine Jawbone Pincushion
Danielle Wood, ‘Fabrication on a Thylacine Pincushion’
‘The Fighting Lion Dies in His Cage’
Louise Lovely’s Travelling Case
from Marie Bjelke-Petersen, Jewelled Nights
Roger Lovell, Salamanca Protest Photograph
from Rodney Croome, ‘The Today Show’
Ricky Maynard, The Mission & The Healing Garden, Wybalenna, Flinders Island, Tasmania
The Wybalenna Petition, 17 February 1846
from Roy Bridges, And All That Beauty
Esther Ottaway, ‘Ocean Nocturne’
Eliza Errington, Moonrise with Figures
from Charlotte Isabel Dick, Huon Belle
from Anthony Trollope, Australia and New Zealand
Simon Cuthbert, Muttonbirds on Big Dog Island