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LYCETT & WALLIS: Unlikely Preservers of Aboriginal Knowledge

Stories Of Our Town 14,663 lượt xem 3 years ago
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The story of Joseph Lycett and James Wallis. At the beginning of the 19th Century in one of the World’s most vicious settlements, two fractured European men started an art revolution that resulted in the preservation of vast amounts of Aboriginal Cultural Knowledge. Before the existence of cameras, convict Joseph Lycett captured traditional Aboriginal life in Newcastle as it had existed for millennia, at the nexus point before most of their lifestyle would be lost forever. This is a wild tale that every Novocastrian needs to know. (38min)

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