Topics: Culture
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1890s - North Coastal - view
Members
of various Northern Shore clans are living at Quakers Hat Bay near Mosman.
Carvings can be still seen on the roof of a cave.
1890s - North Coastal - view
Koories
of the Terramerragal clan camp from time to time at Fuller’s Bridge, Lane Cove
River.
1890 - North West - view
Collection of Aboriginal artefacts. Singleton newspaper man, Alexander Morrison is an avid collector of Aboriginal wooden artefacts from southeast Australia. At least four objects in his collection are made at St Clair: two parry shields and two clubs
1890 - South Coastal - view
boats and nets for fishing
1892 - North West - view
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
1892 - North West - view
Dharkinung language
1892 - North Coastal - view
Richard
Hill of the Aboriginal Protection Board recalls that the district of “Cammera”
extended from the northern part of the harbour ”say from North head to Lane
Cove River … right away north to the Hawkesbury and away east to the sea
coast”. Daniel Southwell called the entire north shore Gom-ma-ree (Cammeray).
Mr Hill would allow Koories to camp at his place in Mosman.
1892 - North West - view
Charley is also a source of information on the local bora initiation ceremony. Mathews later publishes his description of this ceremony, “The Burbung”
1892 - South West - view
smoke signals to communicate, using traditional pathways, hunting for game and animal skins
1892 - South West - view
Traditional medicine and midwifery are practised
1892 - North West - view
Milbrodale cave Aboriginal art site in the Wollombi region
1893 - North West - view
“The Rock paintings and carvings of the Australian Aborigines”
1893 - North West - view
“Rock Carving by the Australian Aborigines (Plate VIII)”
1893 - North West - view
Darkinjung are introducing new symbols into ancient cultural practices to challenge the view that local Aboriginal culture belongs to the past
1893 - North West - view
Sometimes they play with their lips on a gum leaf, a low, monotonous chant that sounds like an acolian harp
1893 - North West - view
People live at St Clair farm the land and also use traditional Indigenous means of subsistence
1894 - North West - view
Margaret was very industrious, making and selling cabbage tree hats
1895 - North West - view
Hawkesbury was the “highway” and Aborigines wanted access to it
1896 - North West - view
rock carving being done by a blackfellow