ABSTRACT
A female warrior, an Indigenous Australian, stands in the foreground of a recent painting, Walyer, by Julie Dowling (2006). This was a painting at the Culture Warriors exhibition in Canberra, 2007/8, by a Badimya/Yamatji/Widi artist. It is of Walyer, a Tasmanian Aboriginal resistance fighter, a woman of the Tomeginee people who died from the colonists’ imported disease of influenza shortly after her capture in 1831.
