11 Facts About Luggenemenener

Luggenemenener endured the Black Wars and risked her life to protect her young son from a genocide of her people.

Luggenemenener threw herself over her little child, Rolepana, when the roving party threatened her People in 1829, completely covering him and saving his life.

Luggenemenener left the next morning for his farm with two badly injured Tasmanian men, a woman, and her two-year-old son, all of whom he had captured.

Luggenemenener was dispatched to the Campbell Town jail and her child was taken to Batman's farm.

Luggenemenener assigned her the difficult task of persuading the last of this tribe's members to surrender to the authorities.

Luggenemenener quickly made contact with the tribe, but since she had no intention of returning to jail nor bringing her people to Batman, she travelled freely until she encountered the Black Line soldiers and spent time both in and out of jail.

From 1830, the last of Tasmania's Aboriginal population, including Luggenemenener were banished to Flinders Island's Settlement Point.

Luggenemenener is depicted to be a plainly dressed woman with her hair pulled back.

Luggenemenener has a large disc on her back, similar to a decorative backpack, which is a key feature.

Luggenemenener is remembered as a young woman living far from her Ben Lomond homeland, marooned on a Bass Strait Island, her child taken from her, and her people murdered.

Tasmanian Aboriginal culture's rope and fibre weaving in jewellery, bags, and boats is a pattern that is possibly mirrored in Luggenemenener's rope-entwined mourning dress.