Yango Mungo Y'eyango by John Lewin

Name: Yango Mungo Y'eyango by John Lewin
Uploaded: 2012-02-27T23:24:10+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Channel: State Library of New South Wales
Description: Watercolour 1815 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW P2/417 Neither Governor Macquarie or Major Antill recorded meeting Yango Mungo Y’eyango, a Wiradjuri man, although Antill noted the possum cloaks of these people. Macquarie described the Aboriginal people he met as inoffensive. He did not consider the implications of the European occupation of their land.

Watercolour 1815 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW P2/417  Neither Governor Macquarie or Major Antill recorded meeting Yango Mungo Y’eyango, a Wiradjuri man, although Antill noted the possum cloaks of these people. Macquarie described the Aboriginal people he met as inoffensive. He did not consider the implications of the European occupation of their land.