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Tommy McRae (Kwatkwat people) 'Victorian Blacks - Melbourne tribe holding corroboree after seeing ships for the first time'

Published 2013

Tina Baum on Tommy McRae's (Kwatkwat people) 'Victorian Blacks – Melbourne tribe holding corroboree after seeing ships for the first time' c.1890s.

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Tommy McRae, Kwatkwat people

Victorian Blacks - Melbourne tribe holding corroboree after seeing ships for the first time
1890's

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Kenneth Rowell

(Nun)
1960s-70s

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