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Corroboree - Government House

Placename: Government House
Layer: Corroborees in Austage, 1816 to 1935
Link back to source:: https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/121086
Type: Other

Details

Latitude: -34.920126
Longitude: 138.600321
Start Date: 1844-05-24
End Date
State: SA

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.; There was a ball and supper at Government House which was concluded by a natives' corroboree.

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Source

Local and Provincial Intelligence, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158918615, 1844-05-25, "Local and Provincial Intelligence, Adelaide Observer, 25 May 1844, 5" | 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" | Literarium diarium, "William Cawthorne, Literarium diarium, W & F Pascoe, Balgowlah, 1975"

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