Topics: Culture
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1845 - South Coastal - view
make a rug
1846 - North Coastal - view
NSW
Legislative Council Select Committee takes evidence from Reverend John McKenny:
“The numbers (of Aboriginal people) were greatly diminished … about 5 years ago
by an epidemic said to be measles which carried off a great many”. There are
many reported cases of white men living with Aboriginal women and having
children.
1846 - North Coastal - view
The
Reverend John Polding declares “I conceive that there is established in the
minds of the black population a sentiment that the whites are essentially
unjust … founded on the fact of the whites coming to take possession of their
lands, without giving them what deemed an equivalent … to trespass upon the
hunting grounds of another tribe is deemed by them a cause of war.”
1846 - South Coastal - view
collecting shells
1847 - North West - view
Darkinjung language
1847 - North Coastal - view
Reverend
John Gregory states “that settlers believed the Aborigines were decreed by God
to a position of innate inferiority from which the only escape was an
inevitable extinction” . Threlkeld had a mission station near Lake
Macquarie. He stated that the Aborigines had strayed from God’s path and as a
result were doomed.
1847 - North West - view
Charlie Clark is one of the last to undergo traditional male initiation
1848 - North Coastal - view
Census
shows a population of 50 Koori people in the whole of the Brisbane Waters area.
Inland Aboriginal people continue through the 1850s to make annual pilgrimages
to the coast.
1848 - North West - view
Bora Ground
1850 - North West - view
carves on a large flat mass of Hawkesbury sandstone the image of a white man going into the bush to cut timber carrying an axe over his shoulder
1850 - South West - view
‘Lilburndale’ where the Darug Sackville Reach burial ground is located
1852 - South Coastal - view
gathering shellfish
1853 - North West - view
A large Aboriginal ceremonial gathering is held at the “Bulga Bora Ground” on the eastern side of Wollombi Brook, with its sacred circles defined by small mounds of earth and carved trees bearing the emblems that mark the initiation of young men of the tribes to tribal rites. 500 to 600 Aboriginal people attend from various tribes from as far as Mudgee and Goulburn. White settlers are excluded from the Bora
1855 - North West - view
throwing boomerangs at the old “Koala Park” paddocks
1860s - North Coastal - view
Traces of Christmas feasts have been found in the
shell middens around the caves.
1861 - North West - view
Wollombi tribe is skilled at gathering wild honey and as a result of bartering with them
1866 - South Coastal - view
relates traditional stories about the country