Comments on: Long Lens on Yagan http://theworstofperth.com/2008/02/03/long-lens-on-yagan/ A showcase of the worst examples of architecture, design, culture and humanity in Perth Western Australia. Posts may contain adult concepts and occasional coarse language. Follow @theworstofperth on Twitter for BREAKING HOT NEWS WORSTS. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:23:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Legend 101 http://theworstofperth.com/2008/02/03/long-lens-on-yagan/#comment-76207 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:15:41 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/?p=565#comment-76207 Erl the statue makes me feel sick.

]]> By: Bon Scott Owns This Land… « The Worst of Perth http://theworstofperth.com/2008/02/03/long-lens-on-yagan/#comment-31298 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:02:33 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/?p=565#comment-31298 [...] traditional owner of West Perth, Bon Scott. I wish someone would cut the head off the Bon Statue as they’ve done to Yagan, the traditional owner of East Perth. As seen by Matsuo. Thanks [...]

]]> By: Frank Calabrese http://theworstofperth.com/2008/02/03/long-lens-on-yagan/#comment-15957 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:49:41 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/?p=565#comment-15957 Update:

Yagan’s Head to be buried in a Memorial Park in Belhus.

More than 170 years after his death, the head of the Noongar warrior, Yagan, will be buried at a memorial park in the Swan Valley.

The Department of Indigenous Affairs has given the City of Swan more than $500,000 to develop the park in his honour.

Yagan’s head was severed in Belhus, near Upper Swan, in 1833.

It was preserved and later sent to Great Britain as an artefact.

The head was returned to WA in 1997 and will finally be buried at the Swan Valley site.

The Yagan Memorial Park will be open to the public.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/05/2508739.htm

]]> By: Frank Calabrese http://theworstofperth.com/2008/02/03/long-lens-on-yagan/#comment-7283 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:26:00 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/?p=565#comment-7283 Speaking of the Beheading of Yagan, I found this Australian Scren entry, complete with video clips relating to the beheadings.

http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/confessions-headhunter/

]]> By: Breasts and Dongers of WA Art « The Worst of Perth http://theworstofperth.com/2008/02/03/long-lens-on-yagan/#comment-6539 Thu, 15 May 2008 04:14:05 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/?p=565#comment-6539 [...] No. 2 No. 3 (from robotnic) No. 4 No.5 (No.6 from Nettie.) No.7, The front of DNA man at Curtin. (Rear shown here.) No.8, [...]

]]> By: Gondolas « The Worst of Perth http://theworstofperth.com/2008/02/03/long-lens-on-yagan/#comment-5406 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:15:04 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/?p=565#comment-5406 [...] Island while we have a quick one under the canopy. Or maybe up to Heirisson island so we can see Yagan’s statue while we’re doing it. How long is your pole my man? Afterwards I have a hankering for [...]

]]> By: stringy http://theworstofperth.com/2008/02/03/long-lens-on-yagan/#comment-3840 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:45:12 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/?p=565#comment-3840 The statue is in a fenced-off area, but it’s designed to keep the kangaroos in, not the humans out. So you can still get to Yagan if you feel the need to take a few photos with him :)

]]> By: greg hoey http://theworstofperth.com/2008/02/03/long-lens-on-yagan/#comment-3193 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:35:30 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/?p=565#comment-3193 Thats definately good idea TIB problem with lots of these aussie memorialisations of various identities ;-schmaltzy and moderate depictions allowed only[gets in the way of australian culture being less shallow]. One imagines this would esp apply to an aboriginal monument. And its a shame. I’m sure there would be a compulsion to have the word sorry dominate its symbology as well. Effecting such a monument as anything other than political propaganda.

And as with architecture any commissioning out of important projects such as our public and other major building infrastructure including monuments should not only be given over to the politicians and local councilors [and their business mates] to decide but this needs to have input from a panel of independant art professionals, and the public [at least the ones concerned about good design etc],
over last twenty odd years in this era of extremely high standard quality of architecture[one of the greatest and most creative periods for architecture ever] most of it just doesnt come australia’s way through lack of open procedures.

]]> By: The Intellectual Bogan http://theworstofperth.com/2008/02/03/long-lens-on-yagan/#comment-3094 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:18:57 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/?p=565#comment-3094 That’s a very ordinary statue. I’ve not seen it before, but it appears to be a bog standard, classical, muscular torso and limbs topped with the head and hairstyle of a 1930s Hollywood starlet. About the only thing I can see which is distinctively Aboriginal is the spear (and even that appears more like a weightlifters barbell halfway through a lift).

I would take a lot of persuading that Yagan actually looked like that or even remotely similar.

How about a campaign for a proper (ie competently executed rather than lifted from stock sources) statue of Yagan?

]]> By: Nettie http://theworstofperth.com/2008/02/03/long-lens-on-yagan/#comment-3079 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:01:21 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/?p=565#comment-3079 God no Mez, being associated with Bob is bad enough.
LA no chance of being cut out of a will you were never in!
Let’s just say that that side of the family ain’t exactly close. I doubt dear Uncle Robert would even recognise me if I passed him on the street. It’s taken me a good fifteen years of hard work in avoiding them to get this result and hopefully it will last!

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