Topics: Culture: North West

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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

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Dharkinung language

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Charley is also a source of information on the local bora initiation ceremony. Mathews later publishes his description of this ceremony, “The Burbung”

1893 - view

People live at St Clair farm the land and also use traditional Indigenous means of subsistence

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“The Rock paintings and carvings of the Australian Aborigines”

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“Rock Carving by the Australian Aborigines (Plate VIII)”

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Darkinjung are introducing new symbols into ancient cultural practices to challenge the view that local Aboriginal culture belongs to the past

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Sometimes they play with their lips on a gum leaf, a low, monotonous chant that sounds like an acolian harp

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Margaret was very industrious, making and selling cabbage tree hats

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Hawkesbury was the “highway” and Aborigines wanted access to it

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rock carving being done by a blackfellow

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Darkinoong

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Darkinyung

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Mathews finally settles on the spelling “Darkinung” for publication. Mathews writes that all the cultural information he obtains is: “by personal inquiries among the few old natives who still speak their own dialect

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Darkinung expressions and grammar

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Of Darkinung country, Darkinung people, and Darkinung culture Mathews writes: “One of the principal dialects was the Darkinung, which was spoken by the natives occupying the country on the southern side of the Hunter River, from Jerry’s Plains downward toward Maitland, extending southerly to Wollombi Brook, Putty Creek, and including the Macdonald, Colo, and Hawkesbury Rivers

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Charley Clark, native of Broke speaks Dharkinung language, [paints] hands in cave

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Both are fully initiated men and have known kinship and personal totem names: Charlie is Ippai, grey kangaroo; Joe is Kubbi, bandicoot

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Darkinung bora initiation ceremony (Burbung)

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On carefully studying the initiatory rites of the Wattung, Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi tribes…