Rare Book Collection
Dawson
Two photographic portraits from the frontispiece of James Dawson’s Australian Aborigines, Melbourne [1881].
Kaawirn Kuunawarn, elder of the Giraiwurung people of south-western Victoria was born in the Mount Shadwell region in 1822-3. From the 1840’s he worked for James Dawson on his property until 1865 when he moved to Framlingham, where he died in 1890.
Little is known of Yarrun Parpur Tarneen who was probably an elder of the Jardwadjali people of the Marnoo region central western Victoria in the 1870’s.
See: Critchett, Jan. A 'distant Field of Murder' : Western District Frontiers 1834-1848. (1990)
