Voices from the other side of history will echo through the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Meeting Room at Inveresk on Sunday.
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Dr Patsy Cameron AO is scheduled to deliver a lecture based on the interactions between European men and Aboriginal women on the small islands of Bass Strait during the first decades of the 1800s.
Part of The Royal Society of Tasmania lecture series, Voices from the Other Side of the Colonial Sea Frontier aims to counter colonial records from the time which depict only slavery and savagery.
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It follows on from Dr Cameron’s MA thesis, Grease and Ochre: The blending of two cultures at the colonial sea frontier. Dr Cameron said she wanted to bring voices from the time into the present day.
“These men and women are the ancestors of so many Tasmanian Aborigines,” she said.
“I want for it to be seen for the cultural and dynamic space that it was.”
Dr Cameron grew up on Flinders Island and traces her Tasmanian Aboriginal Heritage through her mother’s line to the north-east Coastal Plains nation.
- The lecture will be held from 1.30pm on Sunday, September 23.