Topics: Culture
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1910 - North Coastal - view
Two
Aboriginal men photographed fishing from a rowing boat on Narrabeen Lakes.
1912 - North West - view
He argues that Darkinjung, “Wonnarua” (Wannarua, Wannerawa) and “Awabakal” are the same language referred to as “Middle-Kuri”
1914 - South West - view
'My earliest recollections are naturally of my mother, ... "Wonduck" named after the place where she was born, near Richlands, which was the custom of my tribe, i.e the Gun-dun-gorra
1914 - South West - view
Bur rung-gullut
1914 - South West - view
Gurgur
1914 - South West - view
Gun-dun-gorra
1917 - North West - view
Aboriginal language and tradition
1917 - North West - view
Haslam records that they take him through some ceremonies when he is approximately 12 years old and give him the name Pip-peeta (little Hawk). This is the beginning of a life commitment to the study of and support for Aboriginal culture and history
1918 - North West - view
Aboriginal language and culture. This includes the rock art, ceremonies, kinship, mythology, material culture and more of Darkinung peoples
1920s - North Coastal - view
A
Koori camp exists near the present Warringah Golf Course. People eat both
traditional and European foods, (Dennis Foley, oral history).
1920 - South West - view
annual migration route
1921 - South Coastal - view
fishing, collecting and carving mangrove wood for artefacts, and collecting gum tips and wildflowers and making shellwork
1924 - North West - view
regain control of their land
1924 - North West - view
The remnants of traditional people from the Lake Macquarie/ Newcastle region adopt John Frasers invented terms of “ Awabakal ” and “the people of Awaba” to begin to refer to themselves as “the Awabakal”
1925 - North Coastal - view
Father Browne, a Jesuit priest, visits people whom he identifies as
‘Aborigines’ at Middle Harbour, Spit and publishes two photographs. The site is
probably Quakers Hat Bay, near the Spit.
1926 - South Coastal - view
catching prawns in hessian bags