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Indigenous and Asian slaves were the lifeblood of Western Australia’s early pearl industry
Men carry baskets of mother-of-pearl onto a beach in Broome, Western Australia. Photo: Getty Images
Aalingoon came into the bay and lives beneath the sea, wrote late Indigenous pearl shell carver Aubrey Tigan Galiwa, quoted in Lustre, a 2018 book about the Australian pearling industry.
He comes out every full moon, when it s a big tide. As he floats on his back, as he drifts, the scales fall off his back, and turn into goowarn (pearl shells) as they drift down to the seabed below. The tides come in and chuck them everywhere, on the reefs, all around the islands. This way he always gives us more shells. This is a power. This is part of our ceremony. ....

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