Sacred Figures of Ancestral Beings of Arnhem Land

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“…At the same time there was a Germanisation of the judicial language and of the bar. 26 There is intellectual and spiritual genocide. Elements of the nation or group such as the intelligentsia and the clergy that provide spiritual leadership are killed or removed.…”

“…White settlers, according to Evans et al, killed some 10000 blacks in Queensland between 1824 and 1908. 26 Considered to be wild animals, vermin, scarcely human, hideous to humanity, loathsome, and a nuisance, they were fair game for white 'sportsmen'. In 1883, the British High Commissioner, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, wrote privately to his friend William Gladstone, Prime Minister of England:…”

“…It is this psychological blight, more than anything else, that causes the conditions that we see on reserves and missions. 26 Following World War II, policies of absorption were given wider focus -the assimilation of all Aboriginal people over the course of several generations. The aim was avowedly to bring an end to the existence of a distinctive Aboriginal way of life and identity.…”

“…Townspeople benefited economically and were 'an active part of the camps' operation'. 26 Drawing on Horwitz's research, Jonathan Glover claims that local residents 'could not escape knowing'. 27 He provides instances of complaints about the smell, the smoke, dumps of bones, of hair escaping from chimneys and of seeing people being shot.…”

Secular Figures of Northeastern Arnhem Land

“…This pottery had been made on the mainland from local ant-hill substance and clay by aborigines and temporary Macassan settlers; the art has now been lost. Vide R. and C Berndt, 1949. lo Either in the manner of a highly conventionalized figure in the form of a post, or in the realistic interpretation of a human being. l1 R. and C. Berndt, 1948a, p. 311.…”