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LB[ *Lzp+Fi= The first recipient never troubled about being deprived of possession, and enjoyed more the uses to which It was put by his friends. It is laid on pieces of bark, and each boy has to eat the share which is allotted to him by the headmen. Discover more about our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection objects and information available in our Library. The meat was cooked in the most primitive fashion. Sir, I do myself the honor to state to you for the information of His Excel- lency the Governor that a formal complaint was made to me a few days ago, by a respectable person in this neighbourhood in favor of five aborigines whose names are in the margin [Derby, Purser, and three others]. It was longer and narrower, shaped more like a wedge than the axe of to- day. The clean, white bark was then split into string, and crocheted into dilly bags and such. I once inquired the reason of this fear of the place and was quaintly informed that too many shark were there. "We don't have a connection to this homestead or to this area at all," he said. That night they camp in sight of the mens quarters, and each succeeding night they come a little closer, until at last they get right into the single mens camp. . Ceremonies in the Bush. 1917. On reaching the weengarah, which would be only a short distance from the camp, the messenger would tell the headman and elders the purport of his mission, and would hand them a white quartz crystal which had been given to him by the chief initiator when dispatching him on this errand. Figure 3: Richard Browne (17711824). Very rarely did an aboriginal stoop down to pick up any article from the ground. Some distance on the way they hear the keerang coming to meet then, cooeeing like the dingo as before, and walking in the usual way. Copyright for this website is owned by the State of New South Wales through the Department of Education. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Fri 6 Sep 1940 Page 5 MASSACRE OF BLACKS. The Wonnarua also had trade and ceremonial links with the Kamilaroi people. Warning: This article contains content that some readers may find distressing. Leaves are then thickly strewn on this bark, forming a kind of couch, and when the painting of the novices is completed, they are led into the ring and placed sitting down in a row on the couch of leaves - the novices belonging to each tribe being put in a group by themselves on that side of the ring which faces their own country. Indeed it seemed almost im- possible to hit a black with lance or missile if he had his cooreel in his hand. As soon as they had prostrated themselves they were covered up with blankets and possum skin rugs by an old black who kept guard over them, with a heavy waddy in his hand, ready to knock any of the women on the head if they evinced signs 0 f restlessness or undue curiosity In the proceedings. Many textiles reflect the traditional methods of production, design and use. About this again was an outer casing of a freshly stripped sheet of stringy-bark, also bound with vines. The lobsters were caught by the [women] who, on the sea front, dived down among the rocks for them. It was the kinship group that moved within various allotted areas of Wonnarua lands in search of food, and it was only occasionally that these groups would meet to discuss important matters concerning the Wonnarua people as a whole. The Australian Museum holds a large number of cultural material and objects obtained from archaeological sites in New South Wales, as well as items from various regions throughout Australia. The bushes which had previously been laid round the fire are now thrown upon it. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer). Amongthe dense patchwork of open-cut coal mines in the New South Wales Hunter Valley sits a sandstone colonial homestead dating back to the early 1800s. Gordon Bennett (reprinted 1964) p11-12. Further Notes on the Worimi By W. J. They were immediately followed by the hosts, each of whom carried green bushes in their hands. Each messenger on arriving at his destination would be received in the manner already described, and would hand the bull-roarer to the head-man, who would take charge of it, and the tails would be distributed to the men to whom they had been sent. As James Miller explains in his bookKoori a Will to Win, The land held the key to lifes secrets. Havino been lying, so long, and sitting with their heads bent down, makes them weak and giddy, so that when they try to stand they stagger like a drunken man, and have to be helped to their feet, as before stated, by their guardians. Women were not allowed to see drawings of Baiame nor approach Baiame sites, which are often male initiation sites (boras). [8], An Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales. Groups living near the Wonnarua include the Darkinjung and the Wirad Ethnological series No. What huge quantities of fish these blacks could eat! Sir By the directions of T. Cook, Esq., our Supt of Police, and in explanation of that part of your letter to him dated the 30th July, relative to the aboriginal black named in the margin [Jemmy], I do myself the honor to inform you that the said black native was tried at this court on 29th January last, and found guilty of an assault and robbery, and committed to take his trial before the Supreme Court. One of the men would then sound a bull-roarer just after dark in the vicinity of the camp, and next morning everyone would pack up and proceed by easy stages towards the appointed tryst, dances and songs being indulged in at night at each of the stages along their route. The Keeparra Ceremony of Initiation. In a hollow fork I discovered one of these mystery bags. Most of the older hands in Dungog can remember the old aboriginal cemetery near Mr William Abbots home at Violet Hill and at the rear of the Rectory. Just as the t in tinko was turned into d in dingo so the t in Tugag became d, and the nasality of the final g being dropped the word became Dungag and Dungog. These sheep were driven to Berrico at shearing time. This ap peared to cause great confusion among the women, who probably believed that their offspring had been captured by the evil spirit. These were particular favorites, and it was no uncommon sight to see a group of excited blacks hacking at a log and dragging out the long, squirming worms ( which they would swallow raw and wriggling. This website may contain names, images and voices of deceased Aboriginal and TorresStrait Islanderpeoples. It was amazing the speed at which these seemingly cumbersome craft could be driven through the water by their owners, their lightness and shallow draught having a good deal to do with this. A few would be detailed as beaters, driving the mob towards the armed hunters hidden in the bushes. This only lasts a few minutes and then all the men follow after the novices. It is an arduous task that Mr. Mackay and myself are called upon to perform each month, to wit, to walk to Stroud from Dungog for the purpose of administering justice, and as the way is beset with wild blacks, who frequently molest and threaten us Fitzpatric also mentions: Armed conflict with police at a place called (in de- rision) Waterloo, near Browns Creek. He comments: Police got the worst of it. While the covering is being placed over the women, a man runs away to the goolambang and tells the men there that everything is ready. Discover our guides that help you research our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural material in the library. News - significant events and disasters. having no desire to return to her tribe. But there were ceremonies in the bush, wherefrom the women were rigidly excluded. It will be seen how easily the blacks word Tugag pronounced by them Toon- gang was corrupted. The old men who are in the ring with the women, therefore, conduct each mother to her son where he is standing holding the hand of the men on each side of him. The headmen now ask the women to come up close, and the mother of each boy sits on the ground just outside the ring, near her son; his sisters and relatives are a little farther off, and the other women and children outside of the last named. In every creek and in every gully lay dead blacks. The [shelters were] merely a few sheets of bark placed against a convenient log, or bushes roughly planted alongside some huge forest giant. The blacks had an uneering instinct for spot- ting a tree that harbored a possum. The bearer, John McIntosh, ranger for our Association, will conduct any party that you will be pleased to send in the direction they are reported to be in. It required but little effort to keep the communal larder filled to repletion. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Collection. As soon as a black got hold of a white mans tomahawk, he would remove the handle to substitute it with one of his own fashioning. In th e endurance of pain the blackfellow Invariably exhibited the most surprising fortitude. The young, tender stalks of the gigantic lily (ipooloongearn), was another form of vegetable delicacy, only procurable, however, at certain seasons of the year. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Fri 2 Nov 1945 Page 1 THE BLACKS. His depictions were not of the Gringai, but the assumption is made that the Gringai shared some of the ways of dress with the Indigenous Browne depicts. The headmen and young fellows who accompany them, are also a little way behind the novices, shouting and making a great noise as they march along. The Melanesian cultural area is the nearest neighbour of Australian and the museum holds a significant collection of cultural material from Melanesian nations. H e explained that he never felt a hit from a nullah, and only realised he had been struck when he noticed the blood streaming down his [face]. When quite young, a ligature was tied about the first joint of her little finger very tightly, and being left there for a considerable time, the top portion mortified and, in time, fell off. The map was determined by overlaying an old parish map onto a topographic map. On his return into the dock, the reverend interpreter stated, that the constable in charge of the prisoner had just been using him with unnecessary roughness ; upon which the constable (John Proctor) was interrogated from the bench, and he stated that the prisoner made an effort to free himself entirely from his clothes. The women belonging. (By WIRRAPIT). On the floor of the canoe, usually at the stern, there would be the inevitable mound of clay, the floating fireplace. [1], The Gringai are a known clan of the Wonnarua people, whose traditional lands are the Allyn River valley,[9] and include what is now known as Dungog, Paterson, Gresford, Brookfield,[7] Tocal,[10] to the headwaters of the Williams and Chichester rivers. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Fri 22 Dec 1905 Page 5 Scraps of Early History. The body was dropped in sideways and after a stone hatchet and a club were placed beside it the grave was filled in and the ceremonies ended. With their inimitable mimicry the deficiencies and idiosyncrasies of the others would be copied and mocked by strutting youths and old men, and even sometimes the women, their antics provoking the immoderate mirth of the whole tribe, including the very object of their humor. The perpetrators were the Barrington River natives. The diameters of this oval space were 28 feet and 20 feet respectively, being smaller than the oval near the camp. Finally the initiates were sent out into the bush, to prove their capabilities as hunters and men. Examination of Rodwell continuedit was not more than a minute after we came up to their camp, that the blacks threw their spears, and boomarings at us; they attacked us without any provocation on our part; after they threw their spears, four or five shots were fired from our party; I fired, and the deceased fired also I think at the man who wounded him ; the blacks still continued to throw their spears at us after they had wounded the deceased; Flynn pulled out the spear first, then discharged his fowling piece, and followed the prisoner; the deceased called out to me that he had been speared, and pointed to the black who had speared him; I afterwards took off Flynns shirt, and examined the wound ; the wound bled very little; I did not think it a dangerous one; the deceased did not complain of much pain; he walked the first day after he had received the wound, I should think 13 or 14 miles; on the next day he walked to the Courthouse at Williams River, which was about eight miles distance ; on the following morning he left the Courthouse to go to the General Hospital at Newcastle, but on the way I heard that he was taken ill, and conveyed by one of the drays of the Australian Agricultural Company to. Lettris is a curious tetris-clone game where all the bricks have the same square shape but different content. Th e nullah nullah was another weapon in the same category as the wattle, but of different shape. If a boy wants anything, he must touch his guardian, who then commences asking him the most likely things, until he guesses correctly, when the boy nods assent. The first is, the Gringai are mentioned as occupying the headwaters of the Allyn, Paterson, Williams and Chichester rivers, as well as, according to Scott, the lower reaches of the Hunter and Karuah rivers. They are generally listed as clan of the Worrimi people, though the Wonnarua Strategic Plan lists the Gringai of Gresford as Wonnarua. Of course, the whites could not for their own safety allow such an event to pass without in some way punishing the blacks, but the way they did retaliate must appear to us moderns as shockingly cruel but unfortunately for themselves the blacks were looked upon by the early settlers as vermin fit only to be destroyed. Dr McKinlay relates an interesting anecdote in this connec- tion that is worth repeating. In 1999 the Wonnarua Nation Aboriginal Corporation acquired the site of the former St Clair Mission where their forebears lived. Other traditional plant foods include the bulbs of many orchids and the starch from the crown of tree ferns and the starch from stinging tree roots being roasted to make bread. Thank you for reading. They were made to lie prostrate on the ground, and were covered with rugs and blankets, an old man guarding them, waddy in hand, as I had seen many years before. The blacks would not, or could not say anything definite of him that one could advance as an explanation of his where- abouts or his potency, but clearly he had some influence, The belief in a spirit existence is exemplified in connection with the burial customs of the Port Stephens tribe. Join the community of family history enthusiasts and FamilySearch employees to ask questions and discuss potential product enhancements. How he, or she, was dealt with I was never able to discover. Man was given the knowledge to read the land and for every rock, tree and creek he found an explanation for existence. The last of their kings died only some four years ago, a fine, manly old fellow. Fitzpatric seems to play down the extent of these engagements. The digging of the grave being finished, the sexton went to some of the youngest and freshest trees, breaking off the small branches with leaves, and proceeded to line the grave with them, which being done a brother of the deceased was desired to [ensure] the grave was comfortable, which he did by lying in, it in the posture in which the deceased was to be placed. This cleared space was connected with the top of a hill and another cleared space by a narrow path. You can also try the grid of 16 letters. [Women] were never allowed to see a bora ceremony; they always had to lie down, and woe betide one if she lifted her head. ) ?B6=! If the earth is damp, owing to recent rains, pieces of bark stripped from the adjacent trees, or heaps of bushes, are laid on the ground for the women to lie on. There (were edible roots In the gullies, wild- fruits in the brushes. Never at any time could we get them to men- tion the name of anyone who had died. The Australian Museum holds a collection of about 300 Indonesian textiles. leaves which have been prepared for them, between the fire and the embankment bounding the ring, their guardians sitting down behind them in such a way that each boy may be said to be sitting in a mans lap. The fear that this race inspired in the natives of localities adjoining their boundaries reached as far as Dungog, and twenty years ago when Brandy was the last of his tribe in the district he would often mention with apparently genuine fear, the possibility of a raid by the wild blacks from the west. Oysters were to be had for the gathering, and the blacks appreciated the succulent shell-fish mightily. The bias towards the coast applies to plant foods as to others, and this aspect of the evidence makes impossible any comparison between the relative importance of plant foods in coastal and inland environments. Ganghat became anathema to the tribe a valley of death. An astounding example is a 13 million-person family tree created by scientists. There were blacks present from Port Stephens, Gloucester, the Allyn and Paterson Rivers. These two circles connected by the path formed the sacred ground. Check out the What's On calendar of events, workshops and school holiday programs. The chiefs and other old irien remain with the wom-nen at the kackaroo, and preparations for the ceremony are at once commenced. There is a cleared path from one marked tree to another, and the boys are taken along this path to the next tree, when the same formality of clearing a space around its base is gone through, and the boys are again directed to look ul.
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