Topics: Culture: North West
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1818 - view
A “native corroboree” is held at full moon
1818 - view
"Carauberee"
1818 - view
Appin Massacre
1820 - view
kangaroo and possum skin cloaks
1821 - view
Bungaree and his Tribe entertained us with a Karaburie
1823 - view
Aboriginal Rock Carvings at Peates Ferry
1824 - view
“great gathering of tribes”
1824 - view
Each group is painted in distinguishing designs and each is headed by a “Chief”. The guilty stand trial by spear and club
1824 - view
Darkinung language
1825 - view
superstitious ceremony…It appears that Berah-bahn [Biraban]…slept with two other Blacks on the grave of [a] girl…from sunsetting to sun rising for the purpose of obtaining ‘The Bone’, the mystic bone used in the mystic ring, and supposed to be in the abdomen of certain persons skilled in curing sickness and in knocking out the teeth with the bone without pair to the sufferer
1825 - view
Be-rah-bahn returned from a ceremony performed in the mountains, which has initiated him into the rights of an Aborigine. – It appears that they burn a large part of the country, then hunt kangaroos, feast upon the shank bones only, after which they pipe clay themselves all over and then everyone must rush at once into the water and bathe themselves clean
1825 - view
“murri budgel” or very sick
1825 - view
Charlewal and Dick, to dive for mud oysters, and when roasted at the bush fire, they were excellent
1825 - view
Biraban teaches Threlkeld his tribal lore and language
1825 - view
“The Aborigine, who assists me in obtaining their language, informs me, that there is a being, in the Sugar-loaf Mountains, resembling a man but taller in stature; with arms, legs, face, and hair, very long on the hair, but the feet are placed contrary to the face being behind; and the body hairy, like an animal…He is fierce, devouring men, and often pursuing the Aborigines in the mountains”
1825 - view
Australian Aboriginal Song[s]
1825 - view
Awabakal language in writing
1825 - view
Specimens of a Dialect of the Aborigines of New South Wales
1827 - view
Aboriginal Dialect
1827 - view
Some of these farm camps had been in occasional or cyclical use for thousands of years. Kelvinside homestead at Aberdeen, for example, is the site of an important Bora ground