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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Historical
• Sale Date:
  27 Nov 2021 ~ 11am (AEDT) - Session 1: Lots 1 - 680
  28 Nov 2021 ~ 11am (AEDT) - Session 2: Lots 681 - 1332
• Lot #:
  941
• Lot Description:
  Nicolas-Martin Petit
  (1777–1804)
  Terre de Diemen : Arra - Maida
  copper-plate engraving from the Baudin Expedition “Voyages de Decouvertes...”, Paris, 1807
  31.5 x 24cm
• Notes:
  A portrait of the Tasmanian woman Ara-maida of Bruny Island, with her child slung across her back in a kangaroo-skin pouch. Arra-maida is one of the best known of any of the Tasmanian aborigines met by the French. When they were on Bruny Island they met a group of women with whom they began a lively exchange. The women ‘listened attentively when surgeon Bellefin sang them a song which was applauded by them all, and then mimicked by one of them, whom Peron called Arra-maida. She added a song and a dance of her own and then applied charcoal-powder to the faces of Peron and Heirisson’. Her actions certainly troubled the French - Peron was quite critical of her “indecent” dancing.
• Estimate:
  A$200 - 300
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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