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| Name | Humanitarians in the Antipodes: Circular Head to Woolnorth |
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| Description | A visualisation of the investigative tours of British Quakers, James Backhouse and George Washington Walker, who were 'travelling under concern' in the Southern oceans in 1830s. This section relates to the northwest corner of Van Diemen's Land. |
| Type | Journey |
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| Contributor | Heidi Ing |
| Entries | 16 |
| Allow ANPS? | No |
| Added to System | 2024-06-17 15:28:27 |
| Updated in System | 2024-06-27 15:36:01 |
| Subject | colonialism, religious society of friends, quakers, colonial history, james backhouse, george washington walker, transnational human rights activism |
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| Creator | Penny Edmonds |
| Publisher | |
| Contact | penny.edmonds@flinders.edu.au |
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| DOI | |
| Source URL | https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634 |
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| Date From | 1832-10-29 |
| Date To | 1832-11-01 |
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| Language | English |
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Proper, an Aboriginal man traveling with W.J. Darling, was described as being of the country near Circular Head'
- Placename
- Sawyer Bay, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal man Proper
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 99
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal woman Jackey
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 99
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
At the Circular Head jetty, an Aboriginal woman named Maria was 'rescued' from sealers, along with her baby.
- Placename
- Stanley Jetty, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal woman Maria
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 100
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Met with George A Robinson & Edward Curr, Superintendent of the Van Diemen's Land Company, whose home, garden and fields in 'almost every other object but the Gum-trees', resembled England.
- Placename
- Stanley, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- George A Robinson; Edward Curr
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 100
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal woman; Kangaroo Island; Sealers
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 100
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The Charlotte was anchored at Woolnorth Bay in preparation to transport Aboriginal people 'collected by G.A. Robinson, from Barren Island, where he had left them'.
- Placename
- Woolnorth Bay, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 101
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Greeted by Samuel Reeves, Superintendent with the Van Diemen's Land Company and surgeon James Richardson at Woolnorth, where there were 'only a few weather-boarded buildings'.
- Placename
- Woolnorth, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Superintendent Samuel Reeves; Surgeon James Richardson
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 101
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
At Cape Grim the 'whole scenery is in harmony with the name of the place'.
- Placename
- Cape Grim, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 101
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The 'Wandering Albatross rears is young on Albatross Island, where it sits on its eggs til knocked down by the sealers for the sake of its feathers' which were 'sold for about 9d a pound'. A single bird could yield about a pound of feathers and nearly 1,000 Albotrosses were said to have been killed on this island in 1831, with some of the birds 'stunned, plucked, and cruelly left to linger'.
- Placename
- Albatross Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Birds; Albatross
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 102
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The kelp on Albatross Island was 'of gigantic magnitude' and it was converted by Aboriginal people into vessels for carrying water'.
- Placename
- Albatross Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 103
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Mutton fish were 'met with abundantly' and Aboriginal women would dive for them in deep water, 'force them from the rocks by means of a wooden chisel' and bring them up in an oval bag 'suspended round their necks'.
- Placename
- Albatross Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal women
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 103
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal people; Aboriginal woman; Anthony Cottrell; George Augustus Robinson
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 103
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
At Woolnorth, Backhouse & Walker interviewed an Aboriginal man they described as 'an old Doctor' who 'was smeared and streaked with red ochre and grease, with which his beard was also dressed'.
- Placename
- Woolnorth, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal man
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 103
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal women; Anthony Cottrell
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 103-104
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
A Aboriginal woman at Woolnorth was 'arranging several stones that were flat, oval, and about two inches wide, and marked in various directions with black and red lines'. These stones 'represented absent friends, and, one larger than the rest, a corpulent woman on Flinders Island, known by the name of Mother Brown'.
- Placename
- Woolnorth, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal women; Mother Brown
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 104
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Anthony Cottrel, assistant to George Augustus Robinson, offered information to Backhouse & Walker regarding the family structure, body marking, and burial practices of Aboriginal peoples of Van Diemen's Land
- Placename
- Woolnorth, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal people; Anthony Cottrell
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 104-106
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
