Topics: Culture: North West
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1842 - view
Some few opossums, bandicoots, snakes and iguanas and other items had been secured by these people during the day; so with the addition of fish and…eggs we had found in the swan nests, there was a bountiful supply of food
1843 - view
At a pre-arranged Aboriginal “corroboree” and ritualised sporting fight attended by around 100 m1843. men, women and children near Maitland to coincide with the settlers’ horse racing contest, one participant who had acquired a musket without sufficient skill in its use, shot an opponent dead by mistake
1843 - view
While tribes throughout the Wollombi district are: “peaceful people, and too few in number to have fights on a grand scale…occasionally a few heads are broken with the coterie, or a spear wound inflicted in retaliation for some breach of their laws or customs
1847 - view
Darkinjung language
1847 - view
Charlie Clark is one of the last to undergo traditional male initiation
1848 - view
Bora Ground
1850 - 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
1853 - 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 - view
throwing boomerangs at the old “Koala Park” paddocks
1861 - view
Wollombi tribe is skilled at gathering wild honey and as a result of bartering with them
1870 - view
“flying away”
1870 - view
White people freely speak Awabakal language in Swansea, Pelican and possibly Belmont South
1879 - view
“last Darkinung fullblood man” to be initiated
1879 - view
Mathews wrote under the heading “Darkinung”: “Hiram, brother of Tilly, painted hands in the cave near the punt at Sackville Reach
1883 - view
Tom Dillon is a fully initiated man, with a scarred chest and missing front tooth
1887 - view
Gomebeere’s vocabulary
1888 - view
“Grand Corroboree” performance is held in Daniel Morrison’s garden in Singleton. He is the father of artefact collector Alexander Morrison
1889 - view
Margaret sought to caretake the burial ground
1890 - 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
1892 - view
Charley is also a source of information on the local bora initiation ceremony. Mathews later publishes his description of this ceremony, “The Burbung”