It’s hard surely to justify even a vintage one if these. There are new ones? By JaneZ. Morley. $180. With loincloth. Not sure about the dowelling.
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I should acknowledge the picture’s by my brother.
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Needs the tag concrete aboriginal as does
and there may be other examplars
and then there is the classic
but I don’t know what the “artist” has used as material.
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Who is the intended market? Do racists install them in their gardens so they can boo them in peace?
I can imagine a certain irony in having a 70s one, but a new one seems a little too outré for anyone.
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and to add injury to insult : $180. Some of the purchasers , no doubt , would be putting him in a Sydney Swans outfit.
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If you ever go to NSW and to the Blue Mountains go to Echo Point at Katoomba. There is an aboriginal cultural centre (aboriginal owned) selling all sorts of tourist things as well performances. found there was a miniature Neville’s complete with Australian written on the base. There’s even one reclining complete with spear and kangaroo. The only thing missing was the snowdome.
These blokes a quite subtly taking the piss out of the tourists.
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So it’s a reclaiming?
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Apparently so. Though it does seem to be the the tourist of the flag following variety that purchases most.
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Concrete versions must hit the excess luggage pretty hard.
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Well they might not be concrete being so small but you never know. The flag followers mightn’t notice the difference.
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I think it may not be new, but perhaps refurbished – a fresh coat of paint and a new ‘spear’.
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One with faked concrete cancer would be nice.
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The Dalkeith foreshore needs 50.
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In America they are dressed as jockeys and made to hold lanterns at the entries to buildings
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I don’t think we have Aboriginal Australian people over here in great numbers, let alone to the extent that they would be dressed as jockeys and made to hold lanterns at the entries to buildings.
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I almost but not quite wish that there was an example of such an abomination.
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Btw bswam. Uwa off classic burns. http://www.domain.com.au/news/iconic-floreat-iwan-iwanoff-designed-house-destroyed-by-fire-20151221-glszth/
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Ah ! Cleansing fire !!
Speaking of blackness the Aboriginal Americans are usually represented wearing conceptual buckskins and holding cigars …
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Iwanoff.
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Depressing. Any chance they can rebuild as much of it was stone?
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It’s still at the crying stage.
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Manhat ten , suggest you pay a visit to the ‘ 21 ‘ Club if it is still there . Tho the faces may have been repainted pink in recent times . If it is not still there it is available in countless films noirs and tv shows
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I was tweaking the notion that Aboriginal Australians are depicted in any form of American art, racist or not. Lawn jockeys are indeed objectionable, and not just for racial reasons (historically there have always been black and white versions); the treatment of jockeys has historically been one of the sports’ world’s most shameful episodes.
The jockeys at the 21 Club (which is indeed still there) have always been white; the linked article below shows the place in 1946, approximately 10 years after the first one was given to the club by a patron.
They are evidently painted to represent different polo and riding clubs in the New York area.
The 21 Club has a fascinating history as one of the few true speakeasies to transition into a successful post-prohibition restaurant. It also charges $24 for a BLT, which is maybe not so great, but hey – you’re paying for atmosphere.
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$24 would be about right for Perth.
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The dowelling was meant to protect him from genocide
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I thought for a moment the chain near the base was going to be shackled to his ankle. That would have been next level stuff
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He has his very own security swipe lanyard but just not enough accessories for a trendy survivalist. This goes with That in the Great Sandy. Mini surfboard for those confined Gnammahole spaces. Dowelling is to shove up Bear Grylls arse should they meet roun’ da ridges.
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The lanyard must be a Barnett government innovation
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‘ Innovation ‘ is pronounced like ‘ intervention ‘ in this case
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Deah Manhat ten you are so right there is simply no relation between racist bibelots in the anglospheres of Australia and your own sacred isle .
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