Aboriginal workers in the Wollombi district
North West - 1830

Aboriginal workers in the Wollombi District. Aboriginal people are working in fledgling agricultural and pastoral industries. Many are skilled in the “use of the sickle” in wheatfields during harvest time. (Maitland Mercury, 18 January 1854, compliments of Ian Webb, Maitland Historical Society; Cessnock Eagle, 28 October 1949, compliments Carl Toipo).