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tawatja regarding the savage in tasmania tawatja regarding the savage in tasmania main menu skip to content a dedication everything publications yah tawatja yah tawatja this site will accumulate all manner of oddities in academic and artistic extremis as i explore how the world has seen some of my ancestors among all of this there will be the bizarre beautiful offensive romantic ignorant and unbelievable hopefully there will also be the occasional tad of wisdom to be uncovered to help us navigate the treacherous shoals of cultural identity race imperialism gender and forgetting together all of this will mark my progress in mapping the visual representation of tasmanian aborigines by the rest of the world from the 17th century and beyond there is a sad lack of resources available on line for anyone interested in the appearance of tasmanian aborigines in history some of it self seeking nonsense to be studiously avoided so be careful hopefully my blog will reduce this problem a little and prompt some critical thought in the process please browse some of my links for better sources i welcome comments criticism bagging out and most of all contributions of obscure examples of image and text that will help me to compile the real and imaginary of tasmanian aboriginality in the world s perverse ethno hysteric romantic scientific colonial fanciful bleary ever wandering gaze the site will become more structured as it grows so keep an eye on the content hopefully it will make some sense in time for more focused reading a selection of essays reviews and other work can be found here who do i think i am i ve worked in aboriginal organisations agencies running heritage and education programs universities and research institutes pretty well all of my life most of that time was spent making a lot of political noise i eventually realised that most of that noise was emanating from a sparsely filled space in my own life that should have been overflowing with knowledge about the cultural history of my family and the community i live in so now instead of spending my time telling people what they should be thinking and doing about the mess that colonialism has made of the island i come from i try to make that space a little less empty by investigating the visual history that has been left behind and how it has influenced what we think about the past hopefully a few of the things i find will be worth something to others who call tasmania home a personal visual history me in my back yard ulverstone c 1965 this raygun was apparently capable of destroying aliens nana mary christina kennedy nee hearps 1 march 1868 6 feb 1945 for me this project is about family and where we come from this is my father s grandmother nana is seen here c 1930 on her way to melbourne across the other side she is wearing her wallaby skin coat nana was just born one year after wapperty the last of her tribally born elders had died i don t know what she thought about her aboriginal ancestors but that coat makes me think she would have had some yarns to tell nana s grandmother s name was jane baker 1826 1898 she married an englishman by the name of john hearps this photo was probably taken at their farm at dunorlan jane was the first child of dalrymple dolly briggs perhaps the most famous of my ancestors i have yet to find a photo of her this article by nicholas brodie provides an examination of her and the legend of her life wapperty c 1797 12 aug 1867 her sister woretemoerteyener was nana s great grandmother they and many others were kidnapped or traded as slaves at a young age by sealers in bass strait wapperty front left and her countrymen and women at oyster cove mission station 1858 where they were held until their deaths the father of wapperty and woretemoteyener was the clever man manalagena he is perhaps best known from this c 1832 watercolour by convict artist thomas bock a more accurate resemblance of manalagena can be seen in this bust i photographed this at the natural history museum in paris where it is one of a number of tasmanian aboriginal busts from the collection of the phrenologist pierre marie alexandre dumoutier 21 responses to yah tawatja jeni thornley june 13 2014 at 5 31 am reply hi greg have just stumbled on to your blog i think it s you it s great i especially love the photograph of your father s grandmother nana in her possum skin cloak a darug friend of mine has just made a possum and kangaroo cloak and i will send her the link to your pic for further inspiration did i send you the link to the article i quote you in islands of possibility film making cultural practice political action and the decolonization of tasmanian history studies in australasian cinema decolonizing screens 7 2 2014 hope i did i did write to you about it at the time of thinking writing drafting and you replied that it was fine to quote you i quote from coming to terms with tasmania s forgotten war on the conversation http www tandfonline com doi pdf 10 1386 sac 7 2 3 123_1 in any case your writing means a lot to me best wishes jeni thornley http jenithornley com tawatja june 13 2014 at 9 20 am reply thanks jeni yes it is me good to hear from you ciaran lynch may 27 2015 at 9 30 am reply wonderful site thank you i researching 19th c sealers and sealing at the moment looking into some of the men who went west along the coast as far as albany bringing with them palawah women one john williams possibly aka norfolk jack who brought towser would it be possible to copy the photo of wapperty with her countrymen and women i d use it on my own blog and of course reference her and tawatja com no problem if not i understand best wishes ciaran tawatja may 29 2015 at 5 45 am reply hi ciaran i don t hold copyright on the image as long as it is reproduced and contextualised sensitively i d be happy for you to reproduce it on your blog thanks and keep in touch on your research sandra louise hearps newbury september 2 2015 at 9 45 am reply wow just stumbled on this one looking for my john hearps who was my great great grandfather very interesting information haven t seen these photos before john huntley july 20 2016 at 6 55 am reply was your gggfather john hearps b 1816 married to jane baker tawatja august 11 2016 at 1 26 pm yes brendon august 12 2016 at 3 26 pm reply hello ciaran do you know if towser had children my great great grandmother is fanny mason birthname is fanny harris and has a father named john harris who was a sealer and her mother s name is towser fanny was born at sea near kangaroo island i in the 1840 s and went to annesfield school for aboriginal children in albany some information says towser is an aboriginal woman from portland bay area in victoria my great uncle says towser is from mauritius but no one has any solid information yet brendon bissaker august 12 2016 at 5 25 pm reply hey ciaran i think towser is my great great great grandmother fanny mason is my great great grandmother and her mother s name is towser and father s name is john harris who was a sealer fanny was born at sea near kangaroo island and went to annes field aboriginal school in albany i have 2 photos of her but none of towser ciaran lynch august 15 2016 at 10 54 am reply hi brendon i m looking into towser and harris again at the moment contact me at ciaranalbert gmail com i m interested in your line of descent are there is a difficult but really interesting thread which could throw more light on your heritage kind regards ciaran lauren tynan august 28 2016 at 11 59 am reply hello thanks for sharing your writings and the above family photos greg it s wonderful to read comments from other hearps family my great grandmother is jean hearps daughter of alfred hearps and granddaughter of jane baker i would love to hear from other family so feel free to email me at lauren tynan gmail com thanks again greg respectfully lauren tawatja august 28 2016 at 1 02 pm reply hi lauren thanks for commenting i am very keen to find other photos of jane baker and her children or her mother any advice appreciated best g zoe october 24 2016 at 12 29 pm reply hi greg great page i m your cousin zoe kennedy daughter of phillip kennedy and great granddaughter to leo kennedy unfortunately i have nothing further to contribute that you don t already have i hope you can find more info and pictures if you check your linkedin i have sent you a request please feel free to contact me on there if i can be of any help or if you have anything additional that may be of interest thanks tawatja october 24 2016 at 11 51 pm reply hi zoe thanks for making contact let s keep in touch cuz alison webb december 4 2016 at 5 49 am reply hi my niece just told me about your site so interesting i am a descendant of dolly briggs through her son thomas johnson granddaughter mary ann johnson walker greatgrandson thomas lewis walker and great great grandson john tasman walker who is my father so you and i are descended from a daughter and son of dolly great to read the results of your research alison barbara rees august 14 2017 at 5 21 am reply hi alison it s great finding real connections thanks to greg s page here i am a descendant of dolly s son thomas also his six child annie elizabeth annie isobel married to george thomas sellers scotland my grandmother and mother down the sellers line in scottsdale very much involved in sherwood hall and it s relocation we have been to a number of meets now in latrobe and a reunion back in 1987 i think when they relocated the homestead barb rees ralph mother fay ralph johnstone grandmother edna johnstone sellers brian april 5 2017 at 8 52 am reply brian has a picture of john and jane s son william and a picture of his son tawatja june 8 2017 at 12 20 pm reply hi brian i d love to see the photo if you can share it remy may 27 2024 at 6 03 am reply hi there fantastic page it s great to see all these photos in one place my mother was a victim of forced adoption so it s been difficult to unpick our family history however after a lot of research we ve been able to trace our heritage back to jane baker and john hearps via their son thomas hearps and his daughter marian hearps i have copies of photos of marian hearps and woretermoeteyenner which i haven t seen on your page let me know if you would like me to pass them on i have been trying to contact the relevant aboriginal organization to get in touch with the community and become more involved do you happen to know which organization would be best to contact maybe six rivers fiaai or another cheers tawatja may 27 2024 at 10 19 am reply hi i d love to see the photos you have please email to me at greg lehman me com the best organisation to contact is six rivers regards greg danielle brodelis august 20 2024 at 1 37 pm reply this is incredible you have collated all of this i have been inspired to do something similar your nana is my 3x great grandmother her grandson gilbert is my great grandfather leave a comment cancel reply δ search for 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