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Eliza Dunlop's Gibber gunyah 1839

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| Australian Aboriginal / Indigenous / First Nations Archive | Elizabeth Hamilton Dunlop Contents Introduction The Aboriginal Mother 1838   Gibber gunyah 1839 The Eagle Chief 1842 References ------------------- 1. Introduction Elizabeth Hamilton Dunlop was an Irish-born woman who arrived as a free settler in New South Wales, Australia, with a husband and four children during February 1838. The family settled in the Hunter Valley region, north of Sydney, in a property known as Mulla Villa at Wollombi. Her husband was appointed Police Magistrate and Protector of Aborigines. Almost immediately Eliza began reflecting on her new situation through poetry, as she had done before arriving in Australia. At the end of the year she achieved both notoriety and fame when she published a reflection on the Myall Creek massacre of more than 28 Aboriginal people on 10 June.1838. Eliza maintained an interest in local Aboriginal culture and language through the remainder o...

Towwaa of Jervis Bay 1810

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Shoalhaven & South Coast: Aborigines / Indigenous / First Nations archive | Amootoo | Aunty Julie Freeman art | Berry's Frankenstein & Arawarra | Blanket lists | Broughton & Broger | Bundle & Timelong | Byamunga's (Devil's) Hands | Cornelius O'Brien & Kangaroo Valley | Cullunghutti - Sacred Mountain | Death ... Arawarra, Berry & Shelley | God | Gooloo Creek, Conjola | Indigenous words | Kangaroo Valley | Mary Reiby & Alexander Berry | Mickey of Ulladulla | Minamurra River massacre 1818 | Mount Gigenbullen | Neddy Noora breastplate 1834 | Timelong | Towwaa 1810 | Ulladulla Mission | Yams | John Lewin, Towwaa [Jervis Bay], 1810 (detail). Collection: British Museum. Contents Smiling man Tom Ugly / Eugally ? Richard Browne's Towa Chronology References -------------------- 1. The smiling young man Early colonial portraits o...

Broughton & Broger of the Shoalhaven

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Shoalhaven & South Coast: Aborigines / Indigenous / First Nations archive | Amootoo | Aunty Julie Freeman art | Berry's Frankenstein & Arawarra | Blanket lists | Broughton & Broger | Bundle & Timelong | Byamunga's (Devil's) Hands | Cornelius O'Brien & Kangaroo Valley | Cullunghutti - Sacred Mountain | Death ... Arawarra, Berry & Shelley | God | Gooloo Creek, Conjola | Indigenous words | Kangaroo Valley | Mary Reiby & Berry | Mickey of Ulladulla | Minamurra River massacre 1818 | Mount Gigenbullen | Neddy Noora breastplate | Timelong | Ulladulla Mission | Yams | Contents Broughton Broger References --------------------- Abstract : Broughton and Broger were two famous Aboriginal men of the Shoalhaven region of New South Wales, Australia, during the early colonial period. Biographical details are known due to their association with British s...

Timelong of Kangaroo Valley

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Shoalhaven & South Coast: Aborigines / Indigenous / First Nations archive | Amootoo | Aunty Julie Freeman art | Berry's Frankenstein & Arawarra | Blanket lists | Bundle & Timelong | Byamunga's (Devil's) Hands | Cornelius O'Brien & Kangaroo Valley | Cullunghutti - Sacred Mountain | Death ... Arawarra, Berry & Shelley | God | Gooloo Creek, Conjola | Indigenous words | Kangaroo Valley | Mary Reiby & Berry | Mickey of Ulladulla | Minamurra River massacre 1818 | Mount Gigenbullen | Neddy Noora breastplate | Timelong | Ulladulla Mission | Yams |  Contents Timelong Trail , Meryla Pass. Searching Chronology Thoughts References ----------------------- Abstract : Timelong was a senior Aboriginal figure in Kangaroo Valley / Kangaroo Ground, New South Wales, Australia, during the early colonial period, from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 th...