Gwoya jungarai biography of albert

Two dollar Australian coins featuring an image based on a depiction of Gwoja Tjungurrayi.

In this way his job as a guide—a ‘show’m round countries’ (Clifford Possum, quoted in Johnson 2003, 35)—enabled him to pass on his knowledge of Law and Country, and demonstrate to his children how they could earn a living from their cultural knowledge.

As a senior knowledge holder of the Jukurrpa, Jungarrayi participated in rainmaking rituals and chanted songs to release the life essence of rain at Karrinyarra, a major sacred site and rain/water region.

1970), may also have lived and worked there.

Warlpiri and Anmatyerr had long gathered near permanent soakages in the Coniston area, which they called Mamp.

He passed away on 28 March 1965 (see Jillian E Barnes, p.120). On one side is a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. On the reverse side is an Aboriginal Elder, inspired by an Ainslie Roberts drawing of Gwoya Jungarai, and designed by Horst Hahne.

1978). In both, a standing Indigenous figure is used to contrast the supposed “stasis” of Aboriginal pre-history with the “progress” and modernity of the Australian settler colony. He saw Arrernte ritual leaders, concerned about dispossession, acculturation, and tourist souveniring, give their venerated ceremonial objects to Strehlow for safekeeping.

It’s the first time the image has been formally identified as Tjungurrayi. However, Glen Stephens', 2010, detailed article^[6] about the postage stamps discussed in the next paragraph seems to refute any connection between the stamps and his One Pound nickname, which he had acquired much earlier, which Jillian Barnes agrees with (page 114).

"And, you know, immediately afterwards, they wouldn't make fires to cook food, they had to be very careful. He was laconic and humorous, gentle, obliging, and courteous. It was a period of asylum in distant Alyawerre country, forced upon him by the brutality of the white settlers with the support of the Government authorities.

A worthy reminder of a notable Aboriginal Elder and of the First Peoples of this land. Harney and Roberts "identified Tjungurrayi as an extraordinary man who was capable of leading a complicated life and juggling multiple identities. There are several different versions of how Gwoya Jungarai escaped death from the killings of the Coniston Massacre^[4] - " the last known officially sanctioned massacre of Indigenous Australians and one of the last events of the Australian Frontier Wars" - but he certainly found his way to the Arltunga region northeast of Alice Springs, and avoided capture, a survivor of a traumatic ’killing time’ that decimated Anmatyerre-Warlpiri clans and became a man violently displaced from his ancestral country^[5].

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The Geelong centenary stamp may have drawn inspiration from a 1934 Victorian centenary stamp.

Jillian E Barnes, Resisting the captured image: how Gwoja Tjungurrayi, ‘One Pound Jimmy’, escaped the ‘Stone Age’.

From August until October, the men killed 60 Aboriginal men, women and children.

"When I was a little girl I saw my people shot - all because they lived off this country and because they were Aborigines," recalled one survivor.

"Some of our parents and grandparents hid us in caves. From 1988 to 2016 inclusive, 820 million of these coins have been produced at the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra, the nation's capital.

In the late 1940s he assisted the pastoralist William Waudby to establish Central Mount Wedge station. He also continued his activity as a guide for ‘Aboriginal enthusiasts’ such as Theodor George Henry Strehlow an anthropologist who studied the Arrernte (Aranda, Arunta) Australian Aborigines^[10], having been a regular visitor at Strehlow’s field camp near Arltunga in 1935.

It is 45kms west of Alice Springs in the northwest part of Arrernte country, and was intended for Aboriginal people from Alice Springs^[7].

Another son said he was captured and chained to a tree, but freed himself.