Fanny Cochrane Smith
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Fanny Cochrane Smith was an Aboriginal Tasmanian woman considered to be the last fluent speaker of an Aboriginal Tasmanian language. Born at the Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment in 1834, she married
Smith c. 1900
Smith wearing shell necklaces and a belt with wallaby pelts
Smith recording songs for the ethnographer Horace Watson in 1903
Truganini
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Truganini was an Aboriginal Tasmanian woman who was widely, though incorrectly, described as the last surviving Aboriginal Tasmanian. A member of the Nuenonne people, she grew up on Bruny Island in wh
Fanny Cochrane Smith
…health had declined, leaving him unable to work. Fanny appealed without success to the Tasmanian government for an increase to her pension. In May 1876, Truganini—with whom Smith had grown close—died. Truganini was widely regarded as the last surviving "full-blooded" Aboriginal Tasmanian, and upon her death the…
Truganini, c. 1866
Violence between British settlers and Aboriginal Tasmanians during the Black War
1824 illustration of Ram Head Point near Bathurst Harbour
Governor Davey's Proclamation, a pictogram produced to explain martial law and promote conciliation