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The defensive position and lookout post constructed in 1629 on West Wallabi Island, Houtman Albrolhos, off the coast of Western Australia, built by Wiebbe Hayes and his men, who had been stranded on the island during the massacre of the Batavia...

Shipwreck of the Batavia, a Dutch East India Company vessel that was wrecked off the Western Australia coast in 1629. Plate 2, from Ongeluckige voyagie, van 't schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien, by F. Pelsaert, F., & Vliet, J., 1647...

Beacon Island, situated within an archipelago of 122 islands at the northern tip of the Houtman Albrolhos, Australia. Survivors from the Batavia shipwreck were ferried to this island.

One of the Batavia massacre (1629) victims, excavated on Beacon Island. Western Australian Shipwrecks Museum, Fremantle.

A replica of the Dutch East India Company ship, the Batavia, wrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1629.

Massacre of the survivors after the shipwreck of the Batavia, a Dutch East India Company vessel that was wrecked off the Western Australia coast in 1629. Plate 3, from Ongeluckige voyagie, van 't schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien, by F. Pelsaert...

Survivors being transferred from the wrecked Batavia to nearby islands in the ship's boats. Plate 1, from Ongeluckige voyagie, van 't schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien, by F. Pelsaert, F., & Vliet, J., 1647. State Library of New South...

Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876), lithograph by American artist Charles Marion Russell (l. 1864-1926), 1903. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Oglala Lakota Sioux nation citizens Black Elk & Elk in costume as grass dancers while performing with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show in London, England, 1887. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Black Elk (also known as Nicholas Black Elk, l. 1863-1950) photographed here with his daughter, Lucy Black Elk, and wife Anna Brings White, in their home in Manderson, South Dakota, c. 1910. Denver Public Library Special Collections