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Corroboree - Rockhampton

Placename: Rockhampton
Layer: Corroborees in Austage, 1816 to 1935
Link back to source:: https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/117913
Type: Other

Details

Latitude: -23.379
Longitude: 150.512
Start Date: 1865-05-25
End Date
State: QLD

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.; Usual distribution of blankets to the Aboriginals on the Queen's birthday. They disappeared in a cloud of dust down East street and held a grand corroboree in the evening in honor of their great mother across the "big water". The muster included 210 men, women and children; the women numbering eighty, men ninety two.

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Source

Blankets For The Aboriginals, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13113933, 1865-06-05, "Blankets For The Aboriginals, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 June 1865, 8" | Blankets For The Aboriginals, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155029525, 1865-06-10, "Blankets For The Aboriginals, The Age, 10 June 1865, 6" | Fifty Years Ago, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article53301603, 1913-06-07, "Fifty Years Ago, The Morning Bulletin, 7 June 1913, 9"

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