bob10
30th December 2019, 08:51 AM
Kidnapped, a sealers slave and paramour, she saved some of her captors in a shipwreck. Her memorial at Bicheno is the only known gravestone erected to a Tasmanian aboriginal person during the 19th century, and she is the only Palawa woman known to have been buried and commemorated by non-indigenous locals.
Hidden women of history: Wauba Debar, an Indigenous swimmer from Tasmania who saved her captors (http://theconversation.com/hidden-women-of-history-wauba-debar-an-indigenous-swimmer-from-tasmania-who-saved-her-captors-126487?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20 for%20December%2030%202019%20-%201499314254&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20f or%20December%2030%202019%20-%201499314254+CID_2867654a1836986bcd286ecff5a0f791&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=Hidden%20women%20of%20history%20Wauba%20D ebar%20an%20Indigenous%20swimmer%20from%20Tasmania %20who%20saved%20her%20captors)
Hidden women of history: Wauba Debar, an Indigenous swimmer from Tasmania who saved her captors (http://theconversation.com/hidden-women-of-history-wauba-debar-an-indigenous-swimmer-from-tasmania-who-saved-her-captors-126487?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20 for%20December%2030%202019%20-%201499314254&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20f or%20December%2030%202019%20-%201499314254+CID_2867654a1836986bcd286ecff5a0f791&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=Hidden%20women%20of%20history%20Wauba%20D ebar%20an%20Indigenous%20swimmer%20from%20Tasmania %20who%20saved%20her%20captors)