Eora (Yura) men Cour-rou-bari-gal 1 and Y-erran-gou-la-ga 2. Aborigines of New South Wales, both with scarification and body painting. The tribes were decimated by smallpox from the colonists. Copied from portraits by Nicolas-Martin Petit in Francois Peron's Voyage de Decouvertes aux terres Australes, 1807. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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