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Wutapuwitja

Also known as: Wutapuwitja; primary name: Wortabowigee; other name: Fanny; other name: Jock; other name: Plonnoopinner; other name: Waterpooideyer; other name: Wortalowigee; other name: Wutapuwitja
Details: individual; Indigenous Australian; Australian; Female
Biography: Tasmanian Aborigine from Port Dalrymple. Wife of Tunnerminnerwate (q.v.). Accompanied GA Robinson on his Tasmanian expeditions from 1832, and to Port Phillip. Sent to Flinders Island in July 1842.
Bibliography: Plomley, NJB 'Thomas Bock's portraits of the Tasmanian Aborigines' Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston, New Series 18:1-25, 1965.