Topics: Sites: Historic
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South Coastal - view
Aboriginal Medical Service
South Coastal - view
The Foundation on George and Redfern
South West - view
sites around Mt Annan
North West - view
Redournberry town camp, 2 km from Singleton
South Coastal - view
where Joe Anderson and his family lived from 1910’s until the 1930’s
South West - view
Gulguer, Bents Basin
South West - view
Auntie Frances Bodkin describes the sites her mother and other relatives took her to and how she feels when she returns to D’harawal country
North West - view
Sackville Reach Reserve
North West - view
St Clair Mission
Before Cook - North Coastal - view
Koori people are camping near coastal creeks and inlets and make huge middens (piles) of discarded bones, shells and artefacts. Investigations have allowed archaeologists a glimpse of the coastal Koori diet. Bones of birds discovered in middens include shearwaters and little fairy penguins, reptiles like the diamond python, and fishbones of snapper, bream, wrasse, blue groper, catfish, flathead, shellfish, and wild seeds of the cycad Macrozamia . At a site in a rock overhang at Balmoral Beach, a boy’s tooth is found amongst the shells. Important midden sites include Great Mackerel Beach, Forty Baskets Beach, Balmoral Beach, Long Reef, Palm Beach.
Before Cook - North Coastal - view
Koories also produce ochre paintings of animals and handprints. In both cave and on rock platforms, totemic figures were also reproduced in soil and sand during ceremony.
Before Cook - North Coastal - view
Guringai speakers (some of whom called themselves by the clan names below) met the first fleet when it arrived in 1788 and they were the first Indigenous people in Australia to resist Phillip’s fleet. They inhabited the north shore of Sydney Harbour, living along the coast from Kirribilli then north to Manly up along the northern beaches to Broken Bay and as far as Wyong. Inland they extended to the Lane Cove River. The word for man or person is kuri (Koori) and kuringga , the possessive means ‘belonging to kuri’. Ngai (ng/guy) means ‘woman’. Within the language area were many tribal names such as Garigal, Gayamaygal, Gai-mariagal and Borogegal.