Topics: Culture: North West

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Milbrodale cave Aboriginal art site in the Wollombi region

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His attention is drawn to one of the great Aboriginal art sites of eastern Australia. It includes an extraordinary depiction of the creation hero or “great spirit”, Biame painted in red and white ochre

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Dharkinung language

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“The Rock paintings and carvings of the Australian Aborigines”

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“Rock Carving by the Australian Aborigines (Plate VIII)”

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Darkinjung are introducing new symbols into ancient cultural practices to challenge the view that local Aboriginal culture belongs to the past

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Sometimes they play with their lips on a gum leaf, a low, monotonous chant that sounds like an acolian harp

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People live at St Clair farm the land and also use traditional Indigenous means of subsistence

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Margaret was very industrious, making and selling cabbage tree hats

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Hawkesbury was the “highway” and Aborigines wanted access to it

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rock carving being done by a blackfellow

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Darkinung bora initiation ceremony (Burbung)

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On carefully studying the initiatory rites of the Wattung, Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi tribes…

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Burbung of the Darkinung tribes

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John Barber informs Mathews about cultural heritage, especially Rock Carvings

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Gooburra is the last known “full blood” from the Hawkesbury-Hunter ranges to undergo traditional male initiation

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Darkinoong

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Darkinyung

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Mathews finally settles on the spelling “Darkinung” for publication. Mathews writes that all the cultural information he obtains is: “by personal inquiries among the few old natives who still speak their own dialect

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Darkinung expressions and grammar