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Natives stripped and beat voyager

Publisher Australasian Post (Australian, 1864 - 2002)

Author Duncan Thomas

Date20 December 1956

Object numberANMS0542[013]

NameNewspaper clipping

MediumInk on paper

ClassificationsEphemera

Credit LineANMM Collection Nancy Jean Steele Bequest

Terms

DescriptionArticle subtitled 'Bound hand and foot with buffalo hide / Oskar Speck lay helpless as maddened / natives kicked him. Then his furious / captors threatened to cut his throat.'

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