Her Name is Nanny Nellie

Her Name is Nanny Nellie 2023 Released

Directed by Daniel King

Documentary · 78 min

 

Her Name is Nanny Nellie 2023 Released

Directed by Daniel King

Documentary · 78 min

 

Powerful and poignant, Her Name is Nanny Nellie offers us the rare privilege of bearing witness to a family reclaiming their history. In 1925, the Australian Museum commissioned three statues of ‘full blood ’Aboriginal people: a child, a man and a woman, exhibited as nameless objects to be studied as examples of a ‘dying race.’ The woman was Nellie Walker, Irene Walker’s great grandmother and director Daniel King’s great, great... see more

Powerful and poignant, Her Name is Nanny Nellie offers us the rare privilege of bearing witness to a family reclaiming their history. In 1925, the Australian Museum commissioned three statues of ‘full blood ’Aboriginal people: a child, a man and a woman, exhibited as nameless objects to be studied as examples of a ‘dying race.’ The woman was Nellie Walker, Irene Walker’s great grandmother and director Daniel King’s great, great... see more

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Oct 22, 2023
COUNTRY
AU
LANGUAGE
EN
SPOKEN
English
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