10/08/2025
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❤️ Her name was Truganini — “seaweed” in her native tongue. 🖤💛
✨ Taken in 1866, this powerful portrait captures her at around 65 years old. A proud Nuenonne woman of the Bruny Island people, Truganini witnessed unimaginable loss during Tasmania’s colonial invasion.
🌟 In the 1830s, she assisted missionary George Augustus Robinson in efforts to contact and protect remaining Aboriginal groups. 🔥 Yet after her passing, her final wish for peace was denied — her skull was kept on display in a museum for nearly a century.
💯 Only in 1976 was her request honored: her ashes were scattered into the Derwent River.
To many, she is remembered as “the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aboriginal” — a deeply symbolic title, as the Palawa people and their descendants continue to carry her story forward today.
📷: Alfred Wooley ( State Library of NSW.)
