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 Cultural Change During Mission Times (1914-1978)


An artisan, Kelly Bunbujee, (since deceased), uses a rasp to finish
a comeback boomerang, c.1975. (Photograph: Paul Memmott.)

boomerang manufacture

 

Dancers perform at a school hall in Sydney to an audience of school children in the early 1970s.
(Photograph: Keith Glennon.)

school dance performance

 

Mornington Islanders perform in the film "Eliza Fraser". (Photograph: The Sunday Sun.)

 

The wab and thada method of harpooning dugong and turtle with aluminium dinghies
powered by outboard motors. (Photograph: Paul Memmott.)

Dugong hunting with a dinghy