Representation and power: a picture is worth a thousand words: 'Australian Aborigines Slaughtered by Convicts' 1841

Title: Representation and power: a picture is worth a thousand words: 'Australian Aborigines Slaughtered by Convicts' 1841
Creator: Withycombe, Patsy; Barnes, Jillian
Relation: Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues Vol. 18, Issue 2, p. 62-67
Publisher: Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: The co-authors situate the production and reception of one striking visual image of Australian frontier violence within its historical, literary and aesthetic context. Produced by one of Britain's most prominent book-illustrators including for Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne produced this etching for publication in The Chronicles of Crime 1841. It depicts Aboriginal men, women and children yoked together by a tether rope immediately preceding the Myall Creek Massacre and has since become widely accepted as a symbol of frontier lawlessness and is now used by Aboriginal and non-Indigenous Australians alike to remember one of the most shameful incidents in Australian history.
Subject: colonial massacres; Myall Creek; illustrations; Aboriginal Australians
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1331200
Identifier: uon:26564
Identifier: ISSN:1440-5202
Language: eng
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