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Artist describes the first time she ever saw white Australians as a teenager

First Contact - Seeing white man for the first time

Wangkatjungka artist Nyuju Stumpy Brown first saw white people in the 1940s as a teenager. Here, she describes that time and later shows some of her artwork.

Stumpy Brown is a Wangkujanka woman who lives at Christmas Creek in the Kimberley. Stumpy has seen many changes throughout her lifetime but nothing so dramatic, when as a teenager, she saw a white man for the first time.

Here’s a nice profile of her life and work from Gallery Gondwana.

First Contact – Seeing white man for the first time (YouTube / Rebel Films)

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