Van Diemen‘s Land Aboriginal Envirowoolly hand puppets are knitted

Envirowoolly hand puppets are knitted using Australian wool and wool blends

They are cut from solid Blackwood

Leader of the Oyster Bay nation of south-east Tasmania in the 1820s and '30s

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His poetry and prose add significantly to Jane’s observations and artwork in this beautifully presented publication

Van Diemen‘s Land Aboriginal Envirowoolly hand puppets are knittedAlmost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemens Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. In this book, James Boyce shows how the convicts were changed by the natural world they encountered. Escaping authority, they soon settled away from the towns, dressing in kangaroo skin and living off the land. Behind the official attempt to create a Little England was another