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Latitude
-27.474491
Longitude
153.024301
Start Date
1875-01-05
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.
A crowd of 30 natives landed on the wharf with five cakes of copper which had accidentally dropped out of the slings into the river last year on the 28th of November while the steamer Boomerang was loading for Sydney. Mr Wood from the agents gave them a sovereign (£1) for retrieving the copper and when the last cake was fished out a grand corroboree took place in honour of the event.

Sources

ID
tb273
Source
Spain, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51785411, 1875-01-08, "Spain, The Morning Bulletin, 8 January 1875, 2" | "Rockhampton, January 12", http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18334455, 1875-01-23, "Rockhampton, January 12, The Queenslander, 23 January 1875, 10" | Copper, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18334544, 1875-01-30, "Copper, The Queenslander, 30 January 1875" | Copper, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18334544, 1875-01-30, "Copper, The Queenslander, 30 January 1875, 7"

Extended Data

note
event_number
ausstage:Events:117743
dates_estimated
no
description_source
genres
Corroboree|Indigenous|Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Produced|Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Created
data_sources
Mapping Corroboree