In regard to the captured women, if she belonged to the same sub-class or totem as the capturer, he would have to let her go or yield her up to someone of a different class. And then I read Mary Gilmores book Old Days, Old Ways, telling of how the blacks felled, the trees across the rivers to make fish traps. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. From the time the novices left the kweealbang until now they have been compelled to carry pieces of burning bark everywhere they went, but they are now released from carrying the firebrands any more. All these operations are carried out as speedily as practicable, so as not to keep the women - some of whom have infants at their breasts - any longer under such rigorous concealment than is necessary. These men were not allowed possession of fire arms. who fully believed in an after existence, and told me many curious and interesting legends, especially one relating to the stars. Of basalt (maximum dimensions 13 8 2.25 inches), the stone was flat on both sides, one having been worn smooth by constant rubbing. They would eat them in the manner of a Mediterranean peasant with his spaghetti; the head would be thrown back, the mouth opened to receive the end of the dainty, and then there would be sucking sounds denoting a fine gusto. . The Wonnarua people are the traditional land owners of the Singleton area and their lands extend throughout the Hunter Valley and have occupied the Upper Hunter for at least 30,000 years, with traditional knowledge holding that occupation extends back to the early stages of the Dreaming. This communication when handed to Mr F t, he, as the blackfellow describes, read it, tore it to pieces, and when throwing the fragments into the fireplace, said in a contemptuous manner, There, go and bring another, threatening at same time to shoot him if he did not instantly leave the place. He did not own the land, the land owned him. Boggle gives you 3 minutes to find as many words (3 letters or more) as you can in a grid of 16 letters. The Wonnarua were part of the land. This nomadic minstrel was a most important individual, posturing, gesticulating and leaping about the fitful flames of the camp fire he would sing, over and over again, his latest melody, which usually had to do with some well known incident. When baked in the ashes these yams were very palatable; and we, as children partook of them on every occasion that offered. punitive expeditions, and fixes the date at, 48. The only record of punitive expeditions I can vouch for are as follows: In 1835, on the occasion of the great raid on Mackenzies shepherds, at Kiripit, now Rawdon Vale, the A. Most of the Gringai were named Kumbo, but there were some Ipai, Kubbi and Murri among them. This only lasts a few minutes and then all the men follow after the novices. Tiddalik: The Little Green Frog That Grew, Activities for language engagement and appreciation. . The end piece, comprising the barb, or pointed tip, was affixed to the main shaft very skilfully, con- sidering that the hole for its recep- tion had to be bored with a piece of hard-wood, twirled between the hands, the best substitute for an auger procurable. The mothers and other women belonging to each tribe go out of the ring of the white men on the side next their own country. The company has spent more than$15 million formulating plans for the project, which includemoving the homestead to a nearby farm, or the town of Broke, 35km away. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Fri 13 Apr 1923 Page 2 The Origin of Dungog. Genealogical Society of Utah (now FamilySearch) ca. When the fumigating of the men and novices has been completed the women go away to their camp, which is close by, and the men proceed to theirsthe married men joining their wives later on. The station teamster, returning with supplies signalled his approach in the time- honored custom of cracking his bullock whip and bullock whips those far-away days were no doubt just as effective instruments as they are to-day in the back country centres of Australia. Before being lowered into the grave the medicine man, standing at the head, spoke to the corps to find out who caused its death, and he received answers from the other medicine men at the foot. The new-comer announced hls name and business and within a few seconds the whole crowd were jabbering ex-citedly and happily. A dreamtime story from the Wonnarua explains how the hills and rivers in the Hunter Valley were created by a spirit called Baiame. %PDF-1.3 The women then step out of the ring, and stand a few yards from it, where they remain till the conclusion of the performance. The report concludedthat mining on the estate "violates the traditional relationship between the Aboriginal peoples and their land". "It may be that the relocation partially mitigates the loss, but this is not evident in the statements of interviewed Wonnarua people," it said. L. E. Threlkeld. Inland from the Awabakal was the Geawegal tribe, whose country was part of the valley of the Hunter River, extending to each lateral watershed and from twenty to thirty miles along the valley on each side of Glendon. Very carefully was the length of bark separated from its hold so that not a crack appeared in Its tough surface. This would take out the sap and render the wood reasonably soft for application of the tools used as scrapers. This latter circular area was smaller. Further Notes on the Worimi By W. J. an interpreter. When the Wonnarua see the wedge tailed eagle, they know Kawal is looking over them, protecting them. According to the Wonnarua dreamtime the Hunter Valley was created by the great spirit, Baime (Byamee). In th e endurance of pain the blackfellow Invariably exhibited the most surprising fortitude. Boggle. Future of historic Ravensworth Estate sets up showdown between Indigenous groups, coal company, There is an emergency bushfire warning in place for Maintongoonin Victoria. They then see two men swing each a goonandhakeea (excretement-eater) on the cleared space beyond the line of fires. As the smoke swirled and eddied about his curly head, the silence was broken as though this had been the signal for speech. 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 upper end of this pole is ornamented by having, a bunch of green leaves or grass tied around it. The body, nicely tied up in bark, was carried to it by friends of the deceased. Filling in under the logs with stones fitted, or saplings, with twigs woven in and out to let thee smaller fish get away. At the end of the song they would burst into shrieks of raucous merriment. They then throw down the boughs, and go away back to their comrades, who have remained at the place where they painted themselves, and all of them now approach the goonambang, lightly tapping their boomerangs together as they walk along, and on arriving at the ring they form a circle round it. The Gringai had a great dread of thunder and believed it to be the demonstration of the anger of some supernatural being rebuking them for some impropriety. . The blacks mistook the whip cracks for gun shots, and made tracks for safety. I happened to have a few emu feathers stuck in the band of my hat as an ornament. The men took their share first and the women and children made a meal of what was left. 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. 55, of 2,000 acres, in the parish of Lewinsbrook, county of Durham. She was Indeed a wonderfully lucky fisher. Thus their visitor was put at his ease, and in a most tactful manner. He is always painted in front view; Dharramalan is drawn in profile. The Wonnarua also had trade and ceremonial links with the Kamilaroi people. For weeks and weeks he would labor, fashioning with the crude tools at his command, such things as he believed would bring him the best return in his bartering. We children were out for a walk with our faithful servant Fanny, when I, noticing a big mangrove tree on the edge of the bay, I climbed to its top-most branches. The blacks attack on Kiripit homestead was averted by the merest accident. The sports of the children were the daily labors of their parents in miniature. They, too, were buried at Violet Hill. They were a happy lot, the children, tumbling about with little regard to cleanliness as we knew it, and as healthy as could be. This beating of boomerangs and stamping is repeated till the men get quite close to the back of the goonambang. Australia's largest language family is Pama-Nyungan. . Where the line was rolled the skin of the operative was hardened by the application of hot ashes, and in time be- came calloused, smooth, and as hard as dried leather. Figure 12: The men and novices silently surround the women at the Kweealbang. 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. water with eager eyes, would watch until the shoal came within striking distance. Their appearance certainly gave every indication of the justice of this claim for them. Naturally there was someone or other among them who had a striking physical peculiarity, either an over-emphasised feature, a deformity, a trick of gait or speech common to himself. Although there was some kind of communal ownership of everything about the camp, there was a distinct proprietary interest by individuals in certain things, particularly weapons. of two men. I remember on one occasion conversing with a group of natives at their camp when there was a sudden hissing whisper: Cooree Cooree! (Blackfellow! Wonnarua Nation Strategic Plan 2009-2012 - https://goo.gl/HVVNFo. The Kabook and Watoo people are West and South bordering the Wonnarura area. . The Wonnarua were part of the land. A man standing at the butt of the tree commences to cut steps as if going to climb it, and a few of the men run about and throw sticks at the [possums] tail. Then panic stricken they turned to the cliff edge and sprang into space and so perished. They saw some of it. But a Wonnarua Indigenous group believes the project will cause the destruction of centuries of Aboriginal history. Nothing would be said to the women about these proceedings until the time arrived for making a start for the place of meeting. The [shelters were] merely a few sheets of bark placed against a convenient log, or bushes roughly planted alongside some huge forest giant. At this stage the coverings were removed from the women, all of whom were covered in perspiration, as much the sweat of fear probably as of the heat of the day. They [roared] out their lusty choruses until the very echoes trembled on far-away Yacaaba Head. Other spears, of smaller size, were made for other fish and called mooting., It was Interesting to watch the onslaught on the sea mullet when they came into the harbor. It was probably at this site that my great-great- grandmothers kinship fathers passed those intermediate days between boyhood and manhood. Copyright for this website is owned by the State of New South Wales through the Department of Education. Flash Tommy was almost killed and lay insensible for several days. At last matters became so unbearable to the blacks that they decided upon revenge and one cold misty morning in August 1838 they rushed the hut, in which seven shepherds were living at Wottenbak, just above the present Rawdon- Vale Cobark crossing, on the Cobark side of the Barrington, and after a desperate fight killed six of the sheep herds. It was longer and narrower, shaped more like a wedge than the axe of to- day. . Turning their attention from the cattle raid, the blacks attacked the hut where the A. Capt. 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. Clubs (cootarah) were also used, roughly fashioned from any suitable piece of timber. The other method of securing fish was by spearing them. In the Wonnarua dreamtime the Hunter Valley was created by the great spirit, Baime (Byamee). Long before resource companies moved in to tap into the rich coal reserves below, surgeon James Bowman established the Ravensworth Estate in 1824 and it became a hub for horticultural experimentation. The affair took place on the flat about 100 yards south of Camerons fence. [2], He is said to have two wives, Ganhanbili and Birrangulu,[3] the latter often being identified as an emu, and with whom he has a son Dharramalan. His photo is still hanging in the School of Arts. With no knowledge of science to aid them, with only the most primitive ideas of handicraft as white men comprehend it, they could do a vast quantity of very excellent work in a very brief space of time. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Fri 17 Aug 1923 Page 3 Early Recollections of Dungog. The adjoining parish, Belbora (correctly Baal Bora) owes its name to the tragedy. During the early part of each day, the men go out hunting, and bring home the results of the chase, consisting of kangaroos, iguanas, birds, and other game, as well as wild honey. Wonnarua Nation Aboriginal Corporation chief executive Laurie Perry said there were "tit-for-tat skirmishes" on the land, but "there was no massacre on the site or recorded massacre on the site". 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. The booming noise from the top of the hill was again to be heard, and It seemed to become louder and louder. Re the name of Canningalla being called after Lord Canning. The tail of a squirrel or opossum has previously been fastened on the side of this hole by one of the men, unknown to the boys, to convey the idea that the rest of the animal is within. pare the lines. The map was determined by overlaying an old parish map onto a topographic map. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience onourwebsite. But a different local Indigenous group said Indigenous oral history did not prove a massacre at Ravensworth occurred. I immediately acquainted Captain Moffatt and proposed to him to send three soldiers, under the Sergeant, or Field, the Constable, to assist in pursuing the murderers. Find out more, an offensive content(racist, pornographic, injurious, etc. I saw the trees tattooed and marked for a hundred yards round the ring, but I never saw any ceremonies there. One of a small camp of blacks about a quarter of a mile from our house died of some sickness. The Gloucester Advocate (NSW : 1905 - 1954) Tuesday 6 November 1923 p 1. A family tree is a diagram that shows the relationships between people in your family. All along, one side of this top rail, reaching from it to the ground, bark and bushes are. . Some of the performances are, however, enacted during the day, after the men return from hunting. it appears that from 14 to 20 blacks had come with a decided intention of killing some of the sheep if they could not get flour. 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. Celebrated Fisherman of New South Wales, in a canoe the woman sitting down is supposed to be is [sic] wife. When such a contingent gets within about a days journey of the main camp, a messenger is sent on to report that they will arrive next day or the day following. xTk ymH,@>p5qG-jpD*. Great care was exercised in selecting the right tree for the purpose as any fault, caused by a knot or protuberance, would spoil the value of the sheet when stripped. Many textiles reflect the traditional methods of production, design and use. I was working at Irwins once and remember the [women] coming down opposite Tillegra house. The stranger produced a small pipe from his belt, stooped down to the fire, lit the tobacco with a coal, and took a few puffs. Discover your story through inspiring classes and speakers from all over the globe. [7] A cave near Milbrodale contains many Wonnarua Aboriginal paintings, including a large figure of a man who may be Baiame. They never seemed to tire of the diet, and the schools of mullet yielded them more than enough for their wants during the period they would be in the harbor. 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. The top, fitted into this slot, would be made firm with cords of animal sinews or flbre ( and coated oyer with gum from the grass-tree. The honey comb would be pulled out of the hollow limb and thrown down to a couple of mates below who caught it in a wide strip of bark. This account is strangely brief. All the armed men who are standing round, make a noise by beating together two boomerangs, or any two weapons which they may happen to have with them. It was a well-balanced flat or round piece of hardwood, 24-in. Wildlife dwindled. 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. What makes me remember the corroboree was the fight that followed. This unfor- tunate circumstance has given the blacks more courage, and their depredations are becoming more formidable, so that several respectable persons who have stations on the Manning have lately called on me and [called] for protection, but I could only refer them to Captain King, the Commissioner for the Australian Agricultural Company. There was no pretence at architecture or even orderly erection of the crude break-wind. Another group, the Wanaruah Local Aboriginal Land Council, declined to be interviewed, but it wasunderstoodthe group believed evidence of a massacre on the site was inconclusive. The gins peeled the bark off the long straight limbs of the white myrtle and soak it in water holes till the brown skin came off. This was done and Mr. Donelan accompanied me himself to Stroud, while the constables and soldiers went by water to Booral. make arrangements for the district constable and some others, together with some soldiers, being sent up to apprehend the offenders. Note the construction of the canoe, and the fact that the man stands and the woman sits. Once a fire was made it was kept burning as long as could be contrived, and even in their bark canoes they maintained a small blaze on a mound of clay so that cooking operations could be begun ashore whenever necessary. The first recipient never troubled about being deprived of possession, and enjoyed more the uses to which It was put by his friends. Removing the scales was, of course, never thought of. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Tue 15 Apr 1919 Page 5 BURNT GULLY CORROBOREE. was open to attack from the Wallamba and Cape Hawke blacks [who] raided the run and speared the stock, driving many of the cattle [to the]unknown brushy headwaters of the Myall and Crowford to Bundbach, on the northern shores of Port Stephens. The howling continued all the time. Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931) Sat 24 Aug 1895 Page 3 WITH THE BLACKS. a stir when a detachment entered the circle, and with dancing, yelling, and gesticulations, and brandishing of arms at intervals, all made a rush to the fire, yelling, and jumping on it until extinguished, when they retired. They were immediately followed by the hosts, each of whom carried green bushes in their hands. Among the last remaining artefacts of that era is the Ravensworth homestead, whichlies directly in the path of a proposed extension to Glencore's Glendell coal mine. Some of [the] superstitions were extraordinary. x\{xT_fL! $$!fdS!>p&QTD Ujmoql GjKj[Bks" Y[k^{g7(HxB`Kh[-_2H|v*u/'JKxkko"r6_z+Su,o?x(wDYQqEufWES^v0*X_9X+vxI6EZ|zd$]-/tdy.%(RVdD&WD/?K /T:}LFEay*h7~FE36obV*z2[-CFz~>/-r5 ' x^|XjU~H!-t]!KWjBaZN}{NRHgEB=hSE*wQ'D[t5mt/fqms94_~imuIXI%AnEb]~7MeI7g9?k&3 Dungog Chronicle and Gloucester Advertiser - Peep Into the Past March 24, 1932. The flesh was cut with a little sharp stone, and then the black so operated upon would lie out in the sun. Can you wonder, when such happenings as these became known among the blacks that they did not retaliate? The Australian Museums Egyptian Collection includes over one thousand objects and is one of the largest public collections of Egyptian antiquities in Australia. The Wonnarua also had trade and ceremonial links with the Kamilaroi people. They went into the water-hole one after the other, and came out in the same way. This station was In the care of 4 or 5 unarmed men (convicts). This cleared space and its adjuncts is called kweealbang (fire place, or place of the fire). Name (required) The kackaroo (ceremonial ground) was surrounded by carved trees and bushes. Learn more about this lands First Nations peoples and cultures. This pointer is left for the purpose of guiding to the kweealbang camp any tribe which is expected, but has not yet arrived. Privacy policy If the course of performances in the bush have been completed, the boys may be returned next day, but if some further instruction is necessary, the date is arranged accordingly. After performing Divine service in the forenoon, I left Mr. White to do so in the afternoon, and set off at 2, accompanied by Captain Moffatt for Tellighary, where we arrived at little past five, and slept , there there that night. 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