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Yirrkala drawings – Maccassan influences

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Laklak Ganambarr, Yalpi Yunupingu and Wäka Mununggurr discuss the history of exchange and interaction between Macassan traders and Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land and its representation in the crayon drawings from 1947.