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.
The aboriginal corroboree and display of fireworks at the Copenhagen grounds on Monday evening drew together a large number of persons, and the novel entertainment proved a decided success. Aboriginal habits in their most primitive style were displayed by about thirty-five natives, from various tribes around Ballarat, including about a dozen lubras, who were nearly naked and daubed over with paints. Between five and six hundred assembled to witness it. Professor Prescott, the lessee of the grounds, purposes on a future evening to allow the natives the use of the grounds for another corroboree
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Copenhagen Grounds, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/112884867, 1865-02-20, "Copenhagen Grounds, The Star, 20 February 1865, 3" | Aboriginal Corroboree, 1865-02-21, "Aboriginal Corroboree, The Star, 21 February 1865, 6"
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Corroboree|Indigenous|Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Created
