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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"...the bunya harvest... this year (is) a very poor one, and scarcely
worth the battle the Myall and the Burnett tribes are about to fight,
according to annual custom, somewhere on the Burnett side of the
Range."
- The Brisbane Courier (Qld), Monday 10 April 1865, p 3

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td0097
Source
Kerkhove, Ray The Great Bunya Gathering, Early Accounts Enoggera, 2012 https://www.academia.edu/8244371/The_Great_Bunya_Gathering_Early_Accounts