Mrs Ruby Rose, who lives in Derby, Western Australia, is one of the Croker Island girls photographed by Axel Poignant in 1948, as reported in a previous post. She’s the gal on the far right in the AP photograph. Ruby was also one of the “Stolen Generation” elders who was invitied to Canberra to witness the Prime Minister’s “Sorry” speech. Axel’s photograph has become another part of Ruby’s unique archive – the fortunate consequence of not living in Darwin at the time of Cyclone Tracey! Thanks to ANU PhD student Maya Havilland, working in Derby, who recently met up with Ruby and updated the photograph with her own.

Want more? read your blogwrangler’s essay on this photograph As citizens of the world... in the October 2008 Art Monthly Australia here. And why the “another” in this post title? See Roslyn Poignant’s exemplary thesis on the subject Encounter at Nagalarramba (NLA, Canberra, 1996) where the return of AP’s 1952 photographs to the Liverpool River (now Maningrida) communities provides one of the narrative threads around which she constructs this marvellous book. Still available from the NLA…