on what is now the site of Melbourne Zoo, Wurundjeri people were "encouraged" to travel from their home in Coranderrk
and sit in this Victorian "living-diorama" with traditional clothes & artefacts (complete with a stuffed & posed dingo staring at the viewer)
a HUMAN ZOO constructed for paying White visitors to observe "real live Aboriginals in their natural state"
Beruk Barak (“William Barak”) born in 1823 near Croydon, succeeded his cousin “Simon” Wonga as ngurunggaeta in 1875, before them it was Bebejan, Beruk Barak’s father.
Billibellary (Beruk Barak’s uncle) was a signatory to John Batman’s 1835 “treaty” at Merri Creek, when Beruk Barak was 12 years old. He died in 1903.
Aunty Doreen Garvey-Wandin is a current Wurundjeri Elder and Great Granddaughter Of William Barak
White Scum - the SHAME of The Colony in 2025
#auspol #ReconciliationWeek
it's 1888 in the Colony of #Victoria
they constructed this living-diorama (incl. stuffed dingo) at future #MelbourneZoo site for White People to pay & see "live" #Wurundjeri people from #Coranderrk sitting real-time in their "natural-state", exhibits in a #HumanZoo