Topics: Culture
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1868 - North Coastal - view
Corroborees held at Manly on the site
of several churches above Careening Cove. During the visit of Albert
Prince of Wales, the Koori visitors come from different Guringai, Darkinyung and Garigal
areas to dance a large corroboree. They camp at ‘Fassifern’ a property
belonging to the Loxton family, on a flat piece of ground between Kurraba Rd
Bridge and Aubin St near a waterfall, at rear of Dalmarnock cottage. They camp
every year to receive annual blanket and rations for Queen’s birthday. LF Mann
writes, “I well remember watching a number of the original inhabitants of this
country camping and practising for this great event, making boomerangs from
local trees and using them, as they danced around, their bodies painted in many
designs.”
1870s - North Coastal - view
Manly carrier RJ Wild claims to have witnessed the last Aboriginal corroboree in Manly
held on vacant land near St Matthew’s Church on the Corso in the late 1870s.
1870 - North West - view
“flying away”
1870 - North West - view
White people freely speak Awabakal language in Swansea, Pelican and possibly Belmont South
1872 - South West - view
areas of spiritual significance
1874 - North Coastal - view
Mrs
Janet Kennedy (nee Williams)
recalls “that the Manly district contained a number of Aboriginal
camps”. (Kennedy 1937) The people were living on a
mixture of British food (especially tea, flour and sugar) and bush tucker.
1874 - North Coastal - view
Mrs
O’Shanessy, a daughter of ferry engineer Robert Grant recalls “Where the
Catholic Church now stands in Whistler Street there was an aboriginal camp that
was nearly always occupied by a tribe of the coastal blacks, then an everyday
feature of Manly’s life.”
1875 - North Coastal - view
Billy
Fawkner was a Koori servant of the Ward family in Brisbane Waters, who helped
to raise the children. During the 1860s and 70s he would travel to Dural to
sell oysters and fish. With the money he would buy tea, sugar, flour, tobacco
and pipes from the general store. The poet Henry Kendall knew Billy and wrote
about him. King Billy’s cave was about 2 kilometres south of Berowra Creek. His
wife Sal is said to have lived in a nearby cave.
1879 - North West - view
“last Darkinung fullblood man” to be initiated
1879 - North West - view
Mathews wrote under the heading “Darkinung”: “Hiram, brother of Tilly, painted hands in the cave near the punt at Sackville Reach
1882 - South Coastal - view
make shell baskets
1883 - North West - view
Tom Dillon is a fully initiated man, with a scarred chest and missing front tooth
1886 - South Coastal - view
old ‘foot-walk’
1887 - North West - view
Gomebeere’s vocabulary
1888 - North West - view
“Grand Corroboree” performance is held in Daniel Morrison’s garden in Singleton. He is the father of artefact collector Alexander Morrison
1889 - North West - view
Margaret sought to caretake the burial ground