TASMANIA

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FIGURE 1: (Back row left to right) Drayduric (Sophia), Coonia (Patty), Drunameliyer (Caroline); (front row left to right): Wapperty, Meethecaratheeanna (Emma), Mary Ann Arthur, Calamarowenye (Tippo Saib), Plowneme (Flora), Truganini (Lalla Rookh). Inscribed ‘Aborigines of Tasmania’ in FR Nixon, The cruise of the Beacon: a narrative of a visit to the islands in Bass’s Straits with extra illustrations and photographs by the author — 1854, Bell and Daldy, London, 1857; inserted between pp. 18–19 (copy from Nixon to his wife ‘AM’ (Anna Maria) held in Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart).