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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"The big bunya season came around every three years and the blacks always followed it, but in the off seasons."
- Zacharaih Skyring, 'Article 11 Hunting with the Wide Bay Blacks,' Gympie in
the Cradle Days n/d (c.1900?)

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td009b
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Kerkhove, Ray The Great Bunya Gathering, Early Accounts Enoggera, 2012 https://www.academia.edu/8244371/The_Great_Bunya_Gathering_Early_Accounts