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Myles Russell Cook

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behind a painting the last victorian aborigines

Behind a Painting: 'The Last Victorian Aborigines'

Anthropologist Percy Leason thought he was painting the extinction of Victoria's indigenous aborigines in the 1930s. He was wrong, but his portraits are surprisingly sympathetic.