Topics: Culture
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1828 - North West - view
Threlkeld’s 1828 “return of the Black Natives”
1830 - North West - view
He also instructs his surveyors to use Aboriginal place-names
1831 - North West - view
boriginal sites in surrounding countryside which is thought to have been used as a ceremonial meeting place
1831 - North West - view
Mt Yengo
1832 - North Coastal - view
Prospects for farming are limited due to the
rocky nature of the land; it is more profitable to cut timber and gather shells
from Aboriginal middens for burning into lime to make mortar for Sydney
buildings. Aboriginal burials are sometimes hidden in middens.
1832 - North Coastal - view
Skulls
from Aboriginal burials are taken as souvenirs.
1833 - North West - view
fishing in a bark canoe with a shell hook on a line
1834 - 1835 - South West - view
The term Cubbitch Barta or Cubbity Barta or Cobbity Bado all mean white creek
1834 - North West - view
customs of the Aboriginal clans
1834 - North West - view
“native chief of Segenhoe” who stands “with forty followers, painted in a most grotesque manner, carrying spears twelve and fourteen feet long and other instruments of war, and eight black boys, each holding a leash of kangaroo dogs…The evening ended with a corroboree”
1836 - North West - view
Suspended from his neck by a brass chain, he had a half-moon shaped, brass breast plate, with his native and English name, and a declaration of his kingly dignity engraved on it
1837 - North Coastal - view
William
Govett travels to the Northern Beaches to make a government report. He
describes Koori people fishing from headlands, “With only simple tackle, the
Aborigines could catch as many fish as they needed … One Aboriginal caught 8
snapper in less than half an hour”. Govett borrows a line from the man and soon
snags it on a rock. The man responds “I believe you hook him rock, murray
(very) stupid you”.
1839 - North West - view
Malivan, the totemic Eagle Hawk venerated by Aboriginal people as an ancestor
1839 - North West - view
“nung ngnun” (songs) composed by renowned poet, Wullati
1839 - North West - view
“furbish” up their spears, shields, boomerangs and clubs
1839 - North West - view
Hale records the “dialect” spoken by the “natives” between the Hunter River and Lake Macquarie
1839 - South West - view
a corroborree possibly near Camden House in 1839