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Image 10: William Thomas, Two Brothers D'Villiers fighting for a woman

Image of two men threatening each other with spear, shield and boomerang.

The de Villiers brothers were members of the original Native Police Corps. As part of establishing a traditional kinship bond, they exchanged their names with their commanding officer Christian de Villiers; their Aboriginal names were Glillolat and Warra Warrock.
William Thomas, Two Brothers D'Villiers fighting for a woman, in Robert Brough Smyth Papers. La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria.

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