Topics: Culture
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1897 - North Coastal - view
They knew it as ‘Kihimatta’, which in their local dialect
meant a “sign of sleeping places”.
1897 - North West - view
On carefully studying the initiatory rites of the Wattung, Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi tribes…
1897 - North West - view
Burbung of the Darkinung tribes
1897 - North West - view
John Barber informs Mathews about cultural heritage, especially Rock Carvings
1897 - North West - view
Gooburra is the last known “full blood” from the Hawkesbury-Hunter ranges to undergo traditional male initiation
1897 - North West - view
Darkinoong
1897 - North West - view
Darkinyung
1897 - North West - view
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
1897 - North West - view
Darkinung expressions and grammar
1897 - North West - view
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
1897 - North West - view
Charley Clark, native of Broke speaks Dharkinung language, [paints] hands in cave
1897 - North West - view
Both are fully initiated men and have known kinship and personal totem names: Charlie is Ippai, grey kangaroo; Joe is Kubbi, bandicoot
1897 - North West - view
Darkinung bora initiation ceremony (Burbung)
1898 - North West - view
The paintings in the cave consist of 40 two-hand stencils and one boomerang
1898 - South West - view
the roof is much blackened and begrimed by soot of camp fires; and judging from this …probably been the haunt of Aborigines for several generations.”The paintings in the cave had 42 hand stencils 1 boomerang all stenciled in white ochre
1898 - South West - view
Darug language
1899 - North Coastal - view
The Manly News , 10 March 1899 reports “Twenty years ago, [Alderman]
Adam Russell [who had a contracting business] says he unearthed the skeletons
of Aboriginals on the flat near Fairy Bower steps, and thinks it must have been
a burying place for our dusky predecessors.”
1899 - North West - view
Aboriginal pottery. A “blackfellow’s water-bottle of curious design”
1900s - North Coastal - view
Aboriginal
people reported still living at Quakers Hat Bay near Beauty Point, Middle
Harbour. (D Keed, 28 May 1984, Manuscript, Local History section, North Sydney
Library) Another important area where the northern clans gathered is Narrabeen
Lagoon.
1900 - North West - view
Awabakal dialect