Image Title:
Fanny Cochrane Smith (1834-1905), a Tasmanian Aborigine, wearing a belt with wallaby pelts.

Note:
"After the age of 7 Fanny spent her childhood in European homes and institutions. In December 1842 she entered the Queen's Orphan School, Hobart, to learn domestic service skills, but where the children learned little and were subjected to prison-like discipline. More of her time was spent in the Flinders Island home of the catechist Robert Clark, where she lived in conditions of appalling squalor, neglect and brutality. At 12 she worked for the Clarks as a domestic servant at the pittance of £2 10s. 0d. a year." [Australian Dictionary of Biography] Learn More

Image Source:
Wikipedia

Subject:
Oceania - Pacific - Tasmanian Aborigine - Female - Woman - Australian - Belt - Wallaby Pelts

Date:
Late 1800s-1900s

Rights:
Public Domain

Image:
SA-POC-23

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