Topics: Culture: North West
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1897 - view
Of Darkinung country, Darkinung people, and Darkinung culture Mathews writes: “One of the principal dialects was the Darkinung, which was spoken by the natives occupying the country on the southern side of the Hunter River, from Jerry’s Plains downward toward Maitland, extending southerly to Wollombi Brook, Putty Creek, and including the Macdonald, Colo, and Hawkesbury Rivers
1897 - view
Charley Clark, native of Broke speaks Dharkinung language, [paints] hands in cave
1897 - view
Both are fully initiated men and have known kinship and personal totem names: Charlie is Ippai, grey kangaroo; Joe is Kubbi, bandicoot
1898 - view
The paintings in the cave consist of 40 two-hand stencils and one boomerang
1899 - view
Aboriginal pottery. A “blackfellow’s water-bottle of curious design”
1900 - view
Awabakal dialect
1900 - view
Bowen’s breastplate
1901 - view
corroborees
1903 - view
“King” and “Queen” of Terry Hie Hie
1903 - view
corroboree ground with many axe grinding stones
1904 - view
Gu-ru-gnaty living in a lagoon near Sackville
1904 - view
[A]boriginal implements of war
1912 - view
He argues that Darkinjung, “Wonnarua” (Wannarua, Wannerawa) and “Awabakal” are the same language referred to as “Middle-Kuri”
1917 - view
Aboriginal language and tradition
1917 - view
Haslam records that they take him through some ceremonies when he is approximately 12 years old and give him the name Pip-peeta (little Hawk). This is the beginning of a life commitment to the study of and support for Aboriginal culture and history
1918 - view
Aboriginal language and culture. This includes the rock art, ceremonies, kinship, mythology, material culture and more of Darkinung peoples
1924 - view
The remnants of traditional people from the Lake Macquarie/ Newcastle region adopt John Frasers invented terms of “ Awabakal ” and “the people of Awaba” to begin to refer to themselves as “the Awabakal”
1924 - view
regain control of their land
1941 - view
our real Spirit Home
1941 - view
It was there where I came alive. I could feel a belonging