3. Tasmania is located south of Australia in the Southern and South Pacific Ocean

6. A painting on bark featuring six part animal, part human figures. The figures are black with brown and white dots. They are positioned three figures at the top and three figures at the bottom of the painting. Two of the figures at the bottom are holding clapping sticks, the other a didgeridoo. The background consists of white a light brown line markings forming sections of cross hatchings. Wooden sticks are attached to the top and bottom of the painting with string.

7. Shell necklaces were originally made as an adornment, as gifts and tokens of honor, and as objects to be traded with other sea and land tribes for tools or for ochre used in important ceremonies. Archaeologist Rhys Jones found a cremation within a cultural living place dating back at least 2,000 years containing shells that had been pierced for a necklace. After European colonization, necklaces were also sold or exchanged for food, clothing and other supplies. Tasmanian necklace

8. One of the last survivors, 'Fanny' (whose name was Wortabowigee), a woman from Port Dalrymple featured in an 1837 portrait by Thomas Bock, wears five loops of what must have been a necklace of astonishing beauty.

9. A wooden spear thrower colored with pigment. One end narrows and then widens to form a rounded end. The other end has a carved groove 5mm in depth and is wrapped with string and a black resin. The surface is flat and decorated with two bands of yellow, white, red and black line patterns. Next to one of the bands is a white half circle pattern. A spear made of one piece of wood featuring a two prong head, pigmented with brown and three bands of white, yellow and black lines. A wooden spear featuring a bamboo shaft with hafted spear head that has a carved pointed tip. The spear and spear head are pigmented brown with thin bands of white and black paint. Hunting Tools

11. A drum featuring a hollow wooden log with a carved handle in the middle. The top of the drum is covered with snake skin glued to the rim. The drum is pigmented black with carved triangle design creating black diamond shapes at the bottom and two concentric squares near the handle.

12. In 1803, the British and Americans arrived and the tables were turned for the Aboriginal Tasmanians. The visitors came with strange equipment that the Aboriginal Tasmanians didn’t know about, like muskets (guns). They came to hunt seals and landed in the Bass Strait islands, where they set up camp. The visitors really liked the camp so much, they decided to move in; that’s how the trouble started. At first, the contact with the Aborigines was friendly. They traded kangaroo skins and shell jewelry for tobacco, flour and tea. Many Tasmanian women and men were highly skilled hunters and traded their services to the sealers during the hunting season. Trade sometimes involved women from other tribes, which indicates they were probably abducted from their tribe. Some women may have been given as ‘gifts’ in an attempt to blend the their cultures. Some women went willingly, others were uncooperative. Those who were uncooperative were treated brutally; beaten, raped and even killed. The Beginning of the End

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