Wandi Wandi

Wandi Wandi (c.1850 – 25 July 1893), also known as Wandy Wandy, was an Indigenous Australian resistance leader and outlaw of the Iwaidja group of people from the Northern Territory of Australia.

He led a successful mutiny of kidnapped pearl divers against blackbirders in the Torres Strait, and later killed a British colonist on Croker Island in revenge for the shooting death of one of his kinsmen.

Wandi Wandi also led a gang who, in 1892, killed six Macassan fisherman in what has been termed the Malay Bay massacre.

He was hanged in 1893, becoming the second person to be legally executed in the Northern Territory.

While in jail, Wandi Wandi produced a number of drawings which became significant examples of colonial period Indigenous Australian art. Provided by Wikipedia