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This is reconstruction of the route people, probably Gumbainggir, Bundjalung and Yaegl people, may have taken from around the Clarence River region to the Bunya festival in Jinibara/Kabi Kabi country in the Blackall ranges around Baroon. People travelled from long distances from all directions to the Bunya festival and this is southern route from the coast, which first heads inland. According to one colonist's anecdote, “I clearly remember, since a boy, the blacks of the Clarence returning from the Bunya feast, bringing long black brigalow hand spears... they got from the blacks of Durundur, either as presents or by barter.” - Archibald Meston. The Bunya Feast – Mobilan’s Former Glory. In the Wild, Romantic Days, The Brisbane Courier (Qld), Saturday 6 October 1923, p 18 (While this refers to the western festival at the Bunya ranges, people would have gone to either, depending on what was happening that year.) The timeless bunya festival is living culture. It was not forgotten and has been revived in recent years. |