Murrupuritiyanuwu, Aboriginal school girls from Tiwi Island / Bert Wiedemann

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Photo No:	PH0730/0037
Title:	Murrupuritiyanuwu, Aboriginal school girls from Tiwi Island / Bert Wiedemann.
Photographer:	Wiedemann, Bert.
Date taken:	May 1985.
Place:	Melville Island.
Collection:	Northern Territory Government Photographer Slide Collection.
Description:	Murrupuritiyanuwu, Aboriginal school girls from Tiwi Island behind the totem pole and plaque to commemorate Matthias Ulungura. Plaque reads: "This memorial was erected by the Northern Territory Government in recognition of Matthias Ulungura 1921-1980 Who, unarmed, on 19th Feb. 1942 on Melville Island captured the first Japanese prisoner of war (a zero pilot) to be taken on Australian soil."
Related resource:	Matthias Ulungura and the capture of Toyoshima Haijame / Paul A Rosenzweig. Sabretache : the journal of the Military Collectors Society of Australia. v.28 no.2, 1987: 10-14.
Subject:	Aboriginal peoples (Australians) Matthias, Ursula, 1942- plaques schoolchildren
Citation address:	http://hdl.handle.net/10070/152168
Copyright owner:	Northern Territory Library.
Digital format:	2000ppi ; 12.71Mb.
File type:	image/tiff.
Hardcopy format:	1 slide : col.

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