Jungun Jungun i(A117461 works by) (a.k.a. Jun-gun; Jongon)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal
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BiographyHistory

An Aboriginal Australian man from Western Australia who was 'exhibited' in Melbourne and Perth in the late 1890s as 'The Aboriginal Albino'.

According to newspaper reports of the time, he was from the Kimberley region, and had been 'discovered' (and subsequently exploited) by Alexander McPhee, who was then the manager of Ninety-Mile Beach Station, on the borders of the Kimberley.

Source: 'Jun-Gun the Aboriginal Albino', The Australasian, 22 February 1890, pp.404 [note: contains drawing of Jun Gun].

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