Topics: Culture: North West
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1828 - view
Threlkeld’s 1828 “return of the Black Natives”
1830 - view
He also instructs his surveyors to use Aboriginal place-names
1831 - view
Mt Yengo
1831 - view
boriginal sites in surrounding countryside which is thought to have been used as a ceremonial meeting place
1833 - view
fishing in a bark canoe with a shell hook on a line
1834 - view
“native chief of Segenhoe” who stands “with forty followers, painted in a most grotesque manner, carrying spears twelve and fourteen feet long and other instruments of war, and eight black boys, each holding a leash of kangaroo dogs…The evening ended with a corroboree”
1834 - view
customs of the Aboriginal clans
1836 - view
Suspended from his neck by a brass chain, he had a half-moon shaped, brass breast plate, with his native and English name, and a declaration of his kingly dignity engraved on it
1839 - view
Malivan, the totemic Eagle Hawk venerated by Aboriginal people as an ancestor
1839 - view
“nung ngnun” (songs) composed by renowned poet, Wullati
1839 - view
“furbish” up their spears, shields, boomerangs and clubs
1839 - view
Hale records the “dialect” spoken by the “natives” between the Hunter River and Lake Macquarie
1839 - view
“The Australian race” is strictly in the “hunter state” while marvelling at the “ingenuity” of Australian “arts”: ascending trees by making notches, using throwing-sticks as javelins, and using the boomerang as a curving missile
1839 - view
Possum skin cloaks are highly valued
1840 - view
messengers are despatched to gather in distant tribes who light signal-fires on mountain-tops to announce their approach to witness the affair of honor
1840 - view
Aborigines dance on a moonlight night on Threlkeld’s mission on Lake Macquarie. Preparing for the midnight dance around the “mystic ring” lit by numerous fires
1840 - view
Darkinjung, Awabakal and Wonnarua dialects
1841 - view
a “blackfellows corroboree held in a paddock opposite a cottage then owned by Mrs Onus at Richmond”
1842 - view
Well laden with spoil, we arrived at the blackfellow’s camp shortly before dusk, and were agreeably surprised to find that by the forethought of Long Dick, a separate encampment had been prepared for us. It was built of sheets of bark, tent shape, and lined with dry grass; a log to sit on, and wood for a fire
1842 - view
Some few opossums, bandicoots, snakes and iguanas and other items had been secured by these people during the day; so with the addition of fish and…eggs we had found in the swan nests, there was a bountiful supply of food