Gwoya Jungarai

Gwoya Jungarai (* 1895, † March 28, 1965 ), also known as Jimmy Djungarrayi was a Warlpiri, which was imaged first Aborigine in 1950 on a postage stamp, which is popularly called in Australia Aborigine, and on a coin. He is regarded as the most famous face of the Aborigines in Australia.

Life

Gwoya Jungarai was on the 8 pence and 2 ½ pence and on the 2 shillings and 6 pence on the stamp ( called Aborigine), the 1950 and 1952, came out ready. 1987 was a likeness was pressed by him to the Australian 2 dollar coin. Jungarai was also ( one-pound Jimmy ) called " One Pound Jimmy " as he always the question of the sale price of the products it sells traditional aboriginal with one Pound replied. In 1936, a picture of him in an article about the Coniston massacre by the Australian police in 1928 was imaged in Walkabout Magazine. This image made ​​a Photographer in 1935 by him, as one of the survivors of the massacre, in which his entire family was killed. He was the father of the painter Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri.

Photo

The photographer Roy Dunstan made ​​a request in photo when Jungarai as a North American Indians sat armed with a spear on a horse. This image was then displayed on the front page of Walkabout magazine and by Australia Post on stamps and pressed on a coin in the form of a portrait in 1997. More than 85 million stamps were sold.

Source

  • Gwoya Jungarai on acms.sl.nes.gov.au (English)
  • Faces of Australia stamp Their place in society (English)

Itemization

  • Aboriginal
  • Born in the 19th century
  • Died in 1965
  • Man
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