Territory Stories

Murrupuritiyanuwu, Aboriginal school girls

Details:

Title

Murrupuritiyanuwu, Aboriginal school girls,

Photographer

Wiedemann, Bert,

Photo number

PH0730/0036,

Collection

Northern Territory Government Photographer Slide Collection, PictureNT, PictureNT,

Date

1985-05,

Location

Melville Island,

Description

Murrupuritiyanuwu, Aboriginal school girls at the ceremony to unveil the plaque to commemorate Matthias Ulungura. Plaque reads: "This memorial was erected by the Northern Territory Government in recognition of Matthias Ulungura 1921-1980 Who, unarmed, on 19th Feb. 1942 on Melville Island captured the first Japanese prisoner of war (a zero pilot) to be taken on Australian soil.",

Notes

Date:1985-05,

Language

English,

Subject

plaques, schoolchildren, Aboriginal peoples (Australians), Matthias, Ursula, 1942-,

Digital format

4060 x 6000 pixels: 24bpp ; 69.7Mb.,

Format

1 slide : col.,

File type

image/tiff,

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/,

Related materials

Matthias Ulungura and the capture of Toyoshima Haijame / Paul A Rosenzweig. Sabretache : the journal of the Military Collectors Society of Australia. v.28 no.2, 1987: 10-14.,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/151985,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/817333