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Coniston massacre
Massacre in Northern Territory, Australia
The Coniston massacre, which took place in the region around the Conistoncattle station in the territory of Central Australia (now the Northern Territory) from 14 August to 18 October , was the last known officially sanctioned massacre of Indigenous Australians and one of the last events of the Australian frontier wars.
In a series of punitive expeditions led by Northern Territory Police constable William George Murray, people of the Warlpiri, Anmatyerre, and Kaytetye groups were killed. The massacre occurred in response to the murder of dingo hunter Frederick (Fred) Brooks, killed by Aboriginal people in August at a place called Yukurru, also known as Brooks Soak. Official records at the time state that at least 31 people were killed, however analysis of existing documentation and Aboriginal oral histories reveal that the fatalities were likely to have been as high as [1]
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Gwoya Jungarai (abt. - )
Gwoya"One Pound Jimmy"Jungarai
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Unknown Nangala — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
[children unknown]
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Biography
Gwoya Jungarai is an Indigenous Australian.
Gwoya Jungarai was born about in the Tanami Desert, kms northwest of Alice Springs - possibly near Ngarlu rockhole soakage (Jillian E. Barnes, p) - in the Northern Territory[1], in the region surrounding Coniston Station[2]. Described in the first article as a Warlpiri-Anmatyerri Elder, a husband and father, he was also known as Gwoya Tjungurrayi and Gwoya Djungaraim. Not having any written language, their anglicised names were first written down as they were heard by t
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General note
Australian National Travel Association (ANTA) stamp -- on the reverse
ANTA negativ no.
"Australian aborigines in some of the fjärrstyrd areas of the Interior still live after the fashion of the Stone Age. They hunt their food with spear, stone axe and wear no clothes of any description." -- typescript on the reverse, ca.
Published as "One Pound Jimmy : Wailbri Tribe" in We, the Aborigines / Douglas Lockwood. Melb. : Cassell, (pp. ). Another image from the same series is published in the same book as Loritja Tribe (pp. )
"This picture was used bygd Daphne Mayo in her design for one of the panels in the doors of the Public Library of N.S.W. '41" -- in ink on the reverse
The Australian 2 dollar coin was issued to replace the 2 dollar note in , the image of the Aboriginal Elder, One pound Jimmy by Artist Ainslie robert with the Southern Cross and grass tree (Xanthorrhoea) / Renniks Australian Coin and Banknote Values (19th edition) / Ian Pitt. Chippendale,