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Corroboree - Tennant Creek

Placename: Tennant Creek
Layer: Corroborees in Austage, 1816 to 1935
Link back to source:: https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/151400
Type: Other

Details

Latitude: -19.649844
Longitude: 134.189667
Start Date: 1936-08-08
End Date
State: NT

Description

Layer Warning:: Only corroborees that were recorded can be represented, such that these are often those witnessed by and/or performed for colonists and other audiences. Their distribution therefor reflects colonial presence rather than the distribution of corroborees.; Held in the after noon for the celebration of gold production at Tennant Creek.

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Source

Encounters in Touriculture: Indigenous Cultural Tourism in Contested Domains, 1997-01-01, "Michael Parsons, Southern Cross University, Encounters in Touriculture: Indigenous Cultural Tourism in Contested Domains, 1997" | "100,000 Gold Celebrations", http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74321313, 1936-08-10, "100,000 Gold Celebrations, The Advertiser, National Library of Australia, 10 August 1936, 17" | Front Seat at a Stone Age Drama, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48181887, 1936-09-26, "Front Seat at a Stone Age Drama, The Advertiser, National Library of Australia, 26 September 1936, 11"

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