To dig his grave a spade was borrowed from us, and the excavation was made on the foreshores, a few yards above high- water mark. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Fri 29 Dec 1905 Page 1 Scraps of Early History, About 8 miles up the Kerripit River from Rawden Vale one comes out what were known to an older generation as McKenzies Cliffs, in places 200 feet above the river and some two or three hundred yards from the top of these cliffs a beautiful and magnificent view meets the eye, seemingly almost underneath this the clear country of Teragie, while in the far distance one gets a glimpse of Upper Cobark and all around the rugged jumble of mountains. The Wonnarua were part of the land. Within the cleared space, and on one side of it was a crude wooden effigy, colored vividly with some red pigment, having a cross-piece for arms, and a striking head-dress of grass and bark similar to the pattern used by the blacks when stalking kangaroos. With equal reverence the [women] looked upon the small wood-pecker hailing his appearance with delight as presaging good fortune while he lingered in the vicinity, busy with his sharp strong bill seeking grubs under the bark of the trees. up in the smoke, the men raise a guttural shout, and the women wave their arms up and down. Backhouse also noted the Giant Lily (Doryanthus excelsa) flourishing along the route from Newcastle to Threlkelds mission on Lake Macquarie. The Australian Museums Egyptian Collection includes over one thousand objects and is one of the largest public collections of Egyptian antiquities in Australia. The recipient would don the gift, usually after a fashion never originally Intended, and would strut proudly about the camp displaying himself and his adornment. According to the Eather Family, the Bora ceremony was not held on the Meerea property but at another nearby location. Magistrates of the Dun- gog District, responding to an 1845 survey, recorded that the diminution in births was most remarkable, attributing the decline to sexual intercourse with the whites at a very tender age. The men then march once round the outside of the circle in the same manner as on the arrival of a tribe, already described. He more than anyone, seemed to enjoy the joke best. Enter the name of family members in the editing box. This is said to be done to cause the novices hands and arms to grow stronger. Can you list the top facts and stats about Wonnarua? Afterwards the gift, whatever it was, never seemed to have any particular owner, for it would be free for all the tribe. The boys then went through a strange and most symbolic ceremony. We boys did not know that for as a result of ingenuously asking Nancy if she was lonely after the death of Jack, the writer was only saved from personal violence by the presence of some adults. Lettris is a curious tetris-clone game where all the bricks have the same square shape but different content. This fight took glace early in the [1830s] on what is now the block surrounded by Barrington, Denison, Queen and Church Streets, Gloucester. The illustration above, Broken Bay [Hawkesbury RIver]Jemmy. The upper end of this pole is ornamented by having, a bunch of green leaves or grass tied around it. The markings as those who have seen the figures of early-day blacks will know when finalised were quite a white and weird color. Lyn MacBain, who hasstudied local history in Singleton for the past 30 years, said the homestead should stay put. To signify the religious importance, the initiates were given rock crystals warmed in an open fire and told that these were the excrement of the great spirit Goign (hence the meaning of goonambangthe place of excrement). Through these holes two cords were threaded. Having long, prehensile toes they would use them as a white man does his fingers to grasp the object needed and thus would rise it to within reach of the hands. The Dutton Family tree remains a mystery with the conclusion of 1923's first season. The fishing line was called ylrra- warn, and the hook pirrewuy. Some of the hooks were fashioned of bone after the primitive style, but they usually preferred the hooks that my father was able to supply. At this stage the coverings were removed from the women, all of whom were covered in perspiration, as much the sweat of fear probably as of the heat of the day. The Blacks of Dungog, Port Stephens and Gresford. Figure 4: Richard Browne (17711824). But there were ceremonies in the bush, wherefrom the women were rigidly excluded. The Wonnarua people are the traditional land owners of the Singleton area and their lands extend throughout the Hunter Valley and have occupied the Upper Hunter for at least 30,000 years, with traditional knowledge holding that occupation extends back to the early stages of the Dreaming. We actively repatriate material from our collections to Indigenous cultural centres and keeping places, and collaborate directly with communities to return significant cultural objects and ancestral remains to their places of origin. The Earliest Inhabitants - Aboriginal Tribes of the District. Baime has his arms stretched open protecting the Valley. "We don't have a connection to this homestead or to this area at all," he said. During winter would hunt kangaroos, emus, possums and wombats, fish and other animals. It focuses on nurturing the history and culture of the Wonnarua Nation, improving the health and education of its members and managing investments to sustain the Corporation's work. The wattie, however, was deadly in its execution, and there was never any doubt about it when it fell. How they worked out the mathematics of the curve and balance was ever a puzzle to me, as it has been to anthropologists all over the world, but though they always seemed to be making boomerangs, one never heard of any being spoiled or made in such fashion as to prove useless when put to the crucial test. Wauk Ivory as its name signifies, was the scene of a very big tribal fight in which the Kabooks utterly routed the Wallambas, as the latter never afterwards encroached upon the formers territory, but the casualties are of course unknown to us. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. Climactically the upper tooth was extracted by an elder and the slightest indication of objection or pain resulted in ridicule. The Kweealbang Camp.-A short digression will now be made for the purpose of describing how the women are released from their prostrate position, and their subsequent proceedings. "It offers insights into the contestation between the traditional dwellers and early colonisation, the contestation between master and convict, the contestation between the land, agricultureand industry," she said. 1844, my father, John Scott, being employed in a secretarial capacity at Carrington by the Australian Agricultural Company. The Australian Museum holds a large number of cultural material and objects obtained from archaeological sites in New South Wales, as well as items from various regions throughout Australia. . Sir The aboriginal black named in the margin [McCarthy,] for whose appre- hension a reward of 10 was offered some time since in the Govt Gazette, has lately made his appearance in this neighbourhood, and could be easily captured, but as. I further observe that the party who apprehended him and some others were subpoenaed on his trial, and the reward for his apprehension as notified in the Government Gazette of the 15th July 1835 (10) ordered by the Colonial Secretary to be paid to them. But very seldom did they eat them raw. One author [anonymous] used a crossed d to denote a td sound. The manner in which the Grlngai communicated their movements to following friends was noteworthy. The Australian Museum respects and acknowledges the Gadigalpeople as the FirstPeoples and Traditional Custodians of the land andwaterways on which theMuseumstands. See Google Map https://goo.gl/maps/4PwZb8sMZHo. Ethnological series No. At day-break the following morning a number of the men who have been camping with the women at the kackaroo proceed to the goonambang, tapping their boomerangs together as they walk, and join the other men who were there all night. The shout then set up by all was deafening. I. am informed they are camped between my place and Mr Boydells. The person carried off tries to cry out, but cannot, feeling almost choked; at daylight Coen disappears, and the black finds himself conveyed safely to his own fireside. What huge quantities of fish these blacks could eat! By the early 1900s, the word Kurringgai had been adopted by others interested in Aboriginal history and languages and was taken to refer to Aborigines living in northern Sydney. The toys in our collection were acquired between 1885 and 2018, and are made from various materials. The boys are then cautioned by the old men that if ever they tell the women or uninitiated that they have seen this instrument the penalty will be death. As soon as it was taken off, the blacks would pass it back and forth across the flames of a fire to turn up the ends, which would be tied into position with sections of string and fibre. Choose the design that fits your site. This ap peared to cause great confusion among the women, who probably believed that their offspring had been captured by the evil spirit. The Wonnarua Language & Culture Archive is owned and managed by the Wonnarua Nation Aboriginal Corporation (WNAC), and it has been created for educational purposes. But he was about somewhereintangible and dread- conveying. Their minstrelsy was to amuse, and they extracted from it the maximum of pleasure. Man was given the knowledge to read the land and for every rock, tree and creek he found an explanation for existence. In a hollow fork I discovered one of these mystery bags. All the armed men who are standing round, make a noise by beating together two boomerangs, or any two weapons which they may happen to have with them. When the grave, which was very neatly dug with the rudest implements, was considered to be of sufficient depth a man got into it and tried it by lying down at full length. This was done and Mr. Donelan accompanied me himself to Stroud, while the constables and soldiers went by water to Booral. As soon as they are covered over, the women keep up a humming noise the same as they did on the morning the novices were taken away from the kackaroo. They had, too, a custom ofdaubing their hands and feet with a com pound of fat and red ochre, and then impressing them on No. There is a cleared path from one marked tree to another, and the boys are taken along this path to the next tree, when the same formality of clearing a space around its base is gone through, and the boys are again directed to look ul. . Arriving at the foot of the hill the men threw down their weapons on the ground, and springing on to the cleared space, danced on the fire with their bare feet until it was extinguished. The blacks were always fearful of a raid by the Myall River natives, who were reputed to be very warlike and aggressive. Snakes were greatly esteemed by our epicurean friends, their flesh, when roasted, being beautifully white and apparently very tasty. ?j"PeezDl(K6+iwZaA[]l-{/;AC^(!.y>lz+=-e_!N AnWq%H0R"-L-+ The whites also got them to rob bees nests. The section of the tree intended to be used for the purpose was first shaped in the rough and then put In the sea water for a lengthy period until the sap had gone and the tissue toughened. Then panic stricken they turned to the cliff edge and sprang into space and so perished. They ascended the lofty Mackenzie Table land and located the first body of fugitive natives camped on the northern face of the mountain on a narrow shelf above a gigantic cliff which overhung a tangled mass of brush and vines. Then there was a big log near Mr. Fitzgeralds or Lowerys, which may have been cut by the pioneers themselves. Marsupials were in abundance among the ridges and on the flat lands; there were birds In the trees and on the swamps. 69 0 obj <> endobj [citation needed], It was forbidden to mention or talk about the name of Baiame publicly. I immediately acquainted Captain Moffatt and proposed to him to send three soldiers, under the Sergeant, or Field, the Constable, to assist in pursuing the murderers. When it became the custom to carry blankets they usually pinned them across their chests with a bone nose-peg. The usual heap of earth on which the fire is kept burning was in the centre of this enclosure. Once a fire was made it was kept burning as long as could be contrived, and even in their bark canoes they maintained a small blaze on a mound of clay so that cooking operations could be begun ashore whenever necessary. In deference to the very evident wish[es] that I should depart, I rode away. This appeared to be a signal for the next part of the proceedings, for soon after some two hundred leaping blackfellows appeared over the brow of the hill. The Wonnarua people (/hwnrjur/), a group of indigenous people of Australia, are those Australian Aborigines that were united by a common language, strong ties of kinship and survived as skilled hunterfishergatherers in family groups or clans scattered along the inland area of what is now known as the Upper Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia. The chiefs and other old irien remain with the wom-nen at the kackaroo, and preparations for the ceremony are at once commenced. The fat so stolen was greatly prized and was divided among the adults who anointed their bodies with it, and generally carried portions with them in the belief that the prowess and virtues of the deceased would pass to them. As I have said before, life was a joke, and the more laughter they could crowd into it the merrier passed the days. The gaps between the ties of the vines at stem and stern would be plugged with clay, so skilfully introduced that the whole craft would be absolutely watertight. These spirits were supposed to dwell in the bodies of the medicine men. Daily Performances at the Main Camp.- Every day the men go out hunting,, and meet each other in the evening an hour or so before sundown at the goonambang. Learn more about this lands First Nations peoples and cultures. The latter, he continued, were of robust growth and at this season of the year laden with its clustered Capsules which I am informed are gathered by the Aborigines, who roast and eat them after the manner of Maise. Dungog was the ultimate limit of settlement for ten years or more. They would take a fish, thrust a finger through the soft flesh just beneath a side fin, and through that small orifice withdraw all the entrails. They never smiled nor did they ever applaud. The men and the [women] cut their heads with various implements, until blood flowed freely. A dreamtime story from the Wonnarua explains how the hills and rivers in the Hunter Valley were created by a spirit called Baiame. These men, armed with their boomerangs and nulla-nullas, then start towards the kackaroo, some of them taking up their position on one side of the ring, and some on the other, but the majority of them stand near the front of it-that is, on the side from which the path emerges. This proved to be the case. ?D*1q4"'7fw +3k I |`! The words were: Pindi pindeingy pindreingl cou-a-yana poon-maree wyv-gneahu Yangaronga gnaralonga cou-a-yana poon-maree wy-gneahn. xZ6+>E);?c'qkY2);YLg bF( When not in use for this purpose the peg was kept in the cartilage of the nostrils which were pierced for the purpose. Messrs. Donelan and Jenkin set off to ride across to Williams River to see if any of the mounted police were there to assist in scouring the country. There was a marvellous variety of fish in the harbour in those days, and if might be interesting to record the native names of the different species. What makes me remember the corroboree was the fight that followed. The men, exultant over the result of their prowess would immediately proceed to make a fire. It was a very simple process for the tribe to kill all they needed. The back of this shelter is towards the womens camp. . The women twisted this fibre to the required thickness and length by rolling it on the front part of the thigh with the hands. Whereas my parents were always careful to remove bones from any fish served to us at our table, the aboriginal mothers tossed their imps great slices of fish and let them manage as best they could. Australian Race 1887, pp350-359. Then he came forward to the fire no one speaking to him, nor apparently looking at him. These pieces of bark about 9 inches or a foot long, and 2 or 3 inches wide, are cut off trees or saplings for the purpose. Company first established itself on the shores of the harbor. ENRICH https://goo.gl/17pRS8. People sometimes refer to family trees as genealogical trees. Meanwhile a strong body of settlers from the Williams and Allen Rivers struck out to the north-west, ascending the Williams and Chichester Rivers. The guardians or some of the other men then shout out, as if addressing someone, The boys are here yet! Descendants of the Wonnarua are encouraged to give their family details to build the tree. He escaped the last spear at Cold Water Brush in sight of Underbank and safety. This also made it easier for the maker to scrape the billet down to the required thick- ness with the crude tools at his command. They had a clever and simple method of cleaning any fish they caught, and one that 1 have not seen practiced elsewhere. Meaning people of the hills and plains, the Wonnarua were bounded to the south by the Darkinjung, to the northwest by the Nganyaywana, to the northeast by the Awabakal, and to the southeast by the Worimi peoples. placed in a slanting position, forming a shelter, covered in on one side, leaving the other side open. The old men who are in the ring with the women, therefore, conduct each mother to her son where he is standing holding the hand of the men on each side of him. The language spoken around Newcastle and Lake Macquarie called by the aborigines Awaaba was much the same, and the whole language was named Kurring-gai by some, and Awaabakal by others. There was no pretence at architecture or even orderly erection of the crude break-wind. They were fond, too, of pets, for the place was always alive with parrots, bears, opossums, squirrels, kangaroo rats and bandicoots that had been caught in the bush and tamed to the domesticity of camplife. The new-comer announced hls name and business and within a few seconds the whole crowd were jabbering ex-citedly and happily. Figure 12: The men and novices silently surround the women at the Kweealbang. Of course, the poor devils paid very dearly for this as the whites practically massacred the whole lot of them at MacKenzie Cliffs (Kerripit River), in 38. One of the keerang now goes and meets the men and novices -who may be distinguished as the white mob - who are by this time waiting just out of sight, and tells them that everything is ready. Doughboy Billy, to whom Mr. Boydell presented a brass plate with the inscription, King of the Tribe, died in the gully behind what is now Mr. R. G. Berrys. One [researcher] described Frasers work as most unsatisfactory and unquestion- ably the most inaccurate and garbled account ever published about the Aborigines. Despite this demolition of Frasers credentials and abilities, the word Guringai wasnt demolished with its authors reputation and it was picked up from time to time until it became widely accepted as the name for the original inhabitants of northern Sydney or of their language. The other men then go and pick up the bushes thrown down by the keerang, and pull the leaves off them, making a continuous grunting, noise while so employed. The men at the camp pull the leaves off the boughs thrown down by the keerang, who sit down at one end of the clear space. They were astonished and indignant. Baiame is often shown with internal decorations such as waistbands, vertical lines running down the body, bands and dots. men acting as general advisers, but by what authority I never knew. As- suming that the invitation has been accepted, the initiator immediately commences to prepare the keeparra ground, and dispatches another set of messengers, each of whom are on this occasion provided with a bull-roarer (goonandhakeea), several tails or kilts, a belt, and other articles. . The fear that this race inspired in the natives of localities adjoining their boundaries reached as far as Dungog, and twenty years ago when Brandy was the last of his tribe in the district he would often mention with apparently genuine fear, the possibility of a raid by the wild blacks from the west. They liked noise. Then they advance a few paces, and stamp one foot on the ground, and the hosts answer heh! Ironically, it is directly above Baime cave where Europeans first viewed the Upper Hunter, led from Sydney by a tracker from the Wonnarua tribe. It may be taken generally that sickness of all kinds was believed to be caused by the incantations and magic of the koradjis or medicine men of hostile tribes. That this method was a good one I can bear strong testimony, for the natural juices were preserved within the fish, and the flesh tasted better than when treated any other way. On arriving at the circle they walked once round it, and then entered it through the opening in its wall, the women at the same time going out of it by stepping over the embankment at the other end, where they remained as spectators. Nets are spread in a line upon the ground, and beside them are some coolamins containing water. P.S. 3. When they would emerge from the ordeal eventually, they would be haggard, thin and worn. This stiffened the carcase fairly effectively, thus making it more convenient to carry over the shoulders, a factor appreciated by the man that had to bear the burden for per- haps many a weary mile. They were immediately followed by the hosts, each of whom carried green bushes in their hands. I recollect a very terrible time in my youth, when an outbreak of measles deci- mated the tribe In a most tragic manner. Mary Gilmore and her father saw the blacks get one of these logs in place. They played at warlike games with spear and boomerang, fashioned for their own youthful and harmless purpose, They could swim almost as soon as they could walk. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> Dr. McKinlay records that they believed in supernatural beings whom they called Maamba. When all is ready, some of the old men who are assisting the women give a signal, and the gupardians and novices approach the kweealbang. It is popularly known as the Baiame Cave and is part of a series of rock shelters on an area of 80 hectares. The Kabook and Watoo people of the Gringai clan of the Worimi Nation (The Cook family) have lived continually in the Barrington for over 189 years recorded by the first white settlers 1826, until the present Cook Family Descendants from the Kabook and Watoo people speak the Kattang (or Gathang) language and it has been recorded that they are the last of the true custodians and Clan within the boundaries of the Allyn and Williams river up stream to Gummi Falls on the Manning River known as Kummi Kummi (Place of many Crystal stones), Barrington Tops (Beann Beann), Rawdon Vale, Barrington, Gloucester up to the Manning river down to Cresford the Karuah River and the Bulliac Tugrabakh Bora Ground area, some 13km from Gloucester. necessity no doubt guided their deft hands, for the art of fashioning their weapons was inherited from countless generations who had to pit their wits against Nature in the battle for survival. Where the line was rolled the skin of the operative was hardened by the application of hot ashes, and in time be- came calloused, smooth, and as hard as dried leather. [citation needed], In rock paintings Baiame is often depicted as a human figure with a large head-dress or hairstyle, with lines of footsteps nearby. You can also try the grid of 16 letters. Toys were designed to amuse and educate children, and also to prepare them for adulthood. . Name (required) Pride . Mr Stacy did not think the wounds dangerous. The women belonging. The number of aborigines in the District of Dungogfrom Clarence Town to Underbank is sixty-three ; viz., forty-six men and boys, fourteen women, and three children. The attack on the solitary shepherds was tragically successful and five fell victims to the vengeance of the natives,. The juvenile males of this (the Dungog) tribe were, from the age of about twelve to eighteen, allowed to accompany their parents and friends in hunting excursions, and assisted in the incidental fagging necessary about the camps. Many years later Enright (1937-40:91) wrote of having been given a grinding stone which had been found on the bank of the creek at Milgarra, near Bunnan. There were a few aboriginals about in those times. The added leverage launch-* ed the lance with Incredible swift- ness. The mother of each novice, before leaving the kackaroo, picks some small green bushes, which she ties on the top end of her yamstick. Kabooks. Then they would begin on their own account. I verily believe that they would have held a shark. sunrise, one of the headmen pretends to see a large brown squirrel [possum] going into a hole in a tree growing near the camp, and asks one of the men to catch it. A vivid chapter in the earliest history of Glen William deals with the wiping out of a tribe of blacks, and Black Camp of to-day doubtless takes its name from it. The principal piece would be about two feet In length and about half-an-inch In diameter, from the front of which would be removed a narrow strip of the outer shell exposing the hardened pith. Moffatt sent me a letter from Major Sullivan complaining of one of the Companys servant[s] (as is supposed) having come to his farm fired at some blacks in a camp close to his house, and taken away one of their [women]. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Tue 21 Jun 1932 Page 6 TATTOOED BLACKS. On the following morning he would accompany the men to the weengarah, or meeting place where they assemble to discuss all such matters as they do not wish the women or uninitiated youths to take part in. Two fled south, one of whom (an elderly man) was overtaken early in the pursuit; the other a man named Green traversed the wild mountain[s] .. of the Upper Gloucester, Monkerai, Wangat and Chichester Rivers, resting only to fly again from the sounds of his relentless dusky pursuers. At a small plain a mile west of the present Cobakh Station the Port Stephens men came into conflict with the remaining body of natives, but the fugitives broke and fled north wards to a little flat on the Bowman River. Perhaps there were fewer than that. Years afterwards their unburied skeletons could be seen. Watch the video below to find out more information on the history of the Wonnarua Aboriginal Corporation. [They] have for some time past been deprived of their gins, by a named F t (supt to Mr John Lord, of this district) and that on hearing the story. | The A. Australia's largest language family is Pama-Nyungan. A third, holding a green branch, stood at the side calling out the names of everyone of whom he could apparently think, at the same time lightly striking the coffin with the wand. The headman does not take this step on his own responsibility, but after due consultation with the elders of his tribe. Patersons River, where he died on the same day By Mr. Nichols I had no warrant to apprehend any of the blacks; I know. Howitt and Fraser refer to the people of that district as the Gringai. There appears to be clear evidence that the Worimi occupied the country bounded by the seashore from the Manning as far south as Norah Head and possibly to the Hawkesbury. The sisters of each boy then go up to him, and rub their feet on his ankles. The black warriors lay down and died all around. Fortunately sickness troubled them but little. Wonnarua Nation Strategic Plan 2009-2012 - https://goo.gl/HVVNFo. The men make a guttural noise as the novices are shown each tree, and also in going from one tree to another. The native name for the Williams was Durabang; the Paterson River, Yimmang. They would treat him hospitably, and talk with him about general matters of tribal interest. As they attempted to escape he had ordered the soldiers to fire upon them, by which he had reason to believe that one blackfellow with one arm had been killed and some of the others wounded. [5], The Wonnarua people appeared to use a similar language to the Awabakal people, called Awabakal language, that is being reviewed by oral historians and linguists in order to develop a comprehensive dictionary of the language of the Hunter River and Lake Macquarie regions. It is therefore necessary to give them a little relaxation to afford them an opportunity of regaining their strength before attempting the journey to the kweealbang. During, the last night of the sojourn at the kweealbang the old men sing [Ko- ens] song while the boys are lying in the camp. Responsibility . Sir By the directions of T. Cook, Esq., our Supt of Police, and in explanation of that part of your letter to him dated the 30th July, relative to the aboriginal black named in the margin [Jemmy], I do myself the honor to inform you that the said black native was tried at this court on 29th January last, and found guilty of an assault and robbery, and committed to take his trial before the Supreme Court. If, on the contrary, the tribe to whom the white stone was sent consider the time inopportune, or that there are other weighty reasons for post-poning the general gathering, no white stone is returned by the messenger, and the initiator then knows that they do not approve of his proposal, and the matter lapses for the present. The cliff edge and sprang into space and so perished whole crowd were ex-citedly. 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