He then jumped his wedges and thus held them prisoners, and then knocked them all on the head with his maul and killed them. This website may contain names, images and voices of deceased Aboriginal and TorresStrait Islanderpeoples. 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. The blacks living in the district that extends from just about where Brookfield now is to the headwaters of the Chichester and the Williams belonged to a tribe known as the Gringai. . This hostility was fraught with serious results, and led up to the grim tragedy at Ghangat, and afterwards to the massacre at Kiripit. 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. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Fri 2 Nov 1945 Page 1 THE BLACKS. He had two wives, to both of whom he was most kind. A beautiful clear, cold day. I often heard my father speak of the blacks fish traps but it was years after his death that I read Mary Gilmores book, and so I could not ask the questions I wanted to. "We go through the normal processes of applying for funding if there's funding available, doesn't matter if it's from Glencore, Yancoal or Mach Energy.". Among the last remaining artefacts of that era is the Ravensworth homestead, whichlies directly in the path of a proposed extension to Glencore's Glendell coal mine. The women twisted this fibre to the required thickness and length by rolling it on the front part of the thigh with the hands. One of them at last got up, took a sheet of bark, laid it across the grave, and stretched himself upon, it, crying pitifully. These fibre strings were also used to make dilly-bags in which [young children] were carried as well as articles of food, and puppies. This was done and Mr. Donelan accompanied me himself to Stroud, while the constables and soldiers went by water to Booral. Figure 12: The men and novices silently surround the women at the Kweealbang. I remember one old black discoursing on the merits of the nullah a s against the wattle in a fight. The meat was cooked in the most primitive fashion. 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. The blacks would not, or could not say anything definite of him that one could advance as an explanation of his where- abouts or his potency, but clearly he had some influence, The belief in a spirit existence is exemplified in connection with the burial customs of the Port Stephens tribe. 3.- The greatest decrease has been among children and women. A troop of painted savages would bound into the magic circle, and prancing about and clash, ing thelir spears, would announce in hoarse tones that they could not find the poomblts, (the boys who were being initiated). The Chief Justice recommended the prisoner to the Sheriffs humane attention. We pay our respect to Aboriginal Elders and recognise their continuous connection to Country. Owing to the humming noise which they have themselves been making, and the quiet manner in which the men and boys have come in, such of the younger women who have not been to a keeparra before are surprised to see the cordon of white men standing around them. To the blacks the name became an anathema; knew them no more (sic). Many of these objects are on display in our First Nations galleries, Garrigarrang and Bayala Nura. This cruel happening was not discovered by the boss for quite a time and when it was the man was sent to Newcastle, but it remains unknown what his fate was life was cheap then. During the early part of each day, the men go out hunting, and bring home the results of the chase, consisting of kangaroos, iguanas, birds, and other game, as well as wild honey. Many Wonnarua may be uncertain of their heritage and the Elders are keen to help their members trace their family lines. In a new document, Filling A Void, the heritage office says there is no record of the word Guringai or any of its derivatives, including Ku-ring-gai, in any of the early accounts of the colony after white settlement and no hint that the Aborigines of the northern beaches or any other part of Sydney had ever heard the word. Fanny implored us to maintain silence about the find, her perturbation being so intense and impressing us so strongly, that we never mentioned the matter afterwards. As the neophytes are held. The Australian Museum holds a collection of about 300 Indonesian textiles. The flesh was never more than half roasted indeed it was sometimes almost raw. On hearing this noise, the guardians and other men present say to each other, That must be Thoorkooks dogs coming to kill the boys; let us cut steps in the trees near us so that the boys can climb up out of their way.. The chase was a big part of the lives of the males, and strange to relate the spoils were usually divided equally among the various members of the tribe. The branch of the tribe inhabiting the Cape Hawke district and those located along the Barrington River valley early evinced decided hostility towards the incom- ing settlers, with whom the Cape Hawke [Forster] natives came into open conflict at Waterloo [just north of Bunyah] on the Upper Wallamba resulting in a bloodless victory for the natives. . The novices are placed sitting down on the nets, and bend forward and drink water out of the coolamins which are on the ground in front of them. . 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. They pronounced g nasally like the ng in sing. The T and D sounds were very difficult to differentiate. At 12 oclock I was sorry to hear from Baker, a stock-keeper, an-l soon after by Mr. Chas. The spirit of Kawal is embodied in the wedge tailed eagle, found throughout the Hunter Valley. . Early in the thirties the A.A. Coy. The men belonging to the local tribe and other mobs, if any, who have arrived previously - who may be called the hosts, repair from the main camp to the goonambang, and sit down within it, having their faces turned in the direction of the camp. Sharks were about the only thing the blacks feared in the water. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Fri 6 Sep 1940 Page 5 MASSACRE OF BLACKS. A row of fires are lit in front of this shelter, and beyond these fires the surface of the ground is cleared of all loose rubbish and grass for a distance of several yards, the rubbish forming a sort of embankment around the farther side of the cleared space. The howling continued all the time. The lobsters were caught by the [women] who, on the sea front, dived down among the rocks for them. The kinship group was the economic and social unit of the tribe. 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. A. Co. had established an out cattle station at Upper Ganghut a heifer run, in charge of [which were a few of] their assigned servants. . %PDF-1.7 % It required but little effort to keep the communal larder filled to repletion. The men at the goonambang had already been informed that the boombits were on their way. Figure 9: A map of the area described. This being done, the whole force of the assembled tribes came up, running, shouting, and striking their shields with their clubs, and using a roarer which produced the most fearful and unnatural sounds. It is an arduous task that Mr. Mackay and myself are called upon to perform each month, to wit, to walk to Stroud from Dungog for the purpose of administering justice, and as the way is beset with wild blacks, who frequently molest and threaten us Fitzpatric also mentions: Armed conflict with police at a place called (in de- rision) Waterloo, near Browns Creek. He comments: Police got the worst of it. The tributary mentioned is Dog Trap Creek. These were called cumiml, and varied considerably in size and construction according to the purpose for which they were designed. Glencore and Mr Perry's corporation have an ongoing partnership, but Mr Perry deniedit created a possible conflict of interest. The attire usually consisted of a kangaroo skin tied round the middle with a belt of fibre or sinews. With no knowledge of science to aid them, with only the most primitive ideas of handicraft as white men comprehend it, they could do a vast quantity of very excellent work in a very brief space of time. The rugs they used were made of animals skins, principally those of opossums. Wednesday, 23rd 1832]. Cabbage Tree Island was literally covered with them then, and I recall dropping fourteen in one discharge of my little double-barrelled gun. The seeds of Zamia spiralis [a species of cycad] were soaked in a creek or swamp for several weeks, pounded and then roasted (Threlkeld in Gunsom 1974:55; Backhouse 1843:380). The men stoop down, and clear away with their hands all leaves and rubbish from the surface of the ground around each tree, and the novices are brought to this clear space, with their heads bowed, and are told to look up at the marks on the tree. These men were employed as shepherds and whenever they got a chance practised almost unbelievable cruelties on the blacks, but stealing the black women was the most serious in the eyes of the aborigines. With these birds and animals,usually well trained, they would amuse themselves for hours, indulging in fits of mirth at the antics and feats of their pets. Only in recent years has this historical fiction been properly analysed and now the Aboriginal Heritage Office a joint initiative of and funded by Manly, Warringah, Pittwater, North Sydney, Lane Cove, Willoughby, Ku-ring-gai and Ryde councils . 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. Fanny, on seeing it, became greatly agitated and ordered me to restore it to its hiding place at once. It was made of a flat piece of wood, a few inches in length, in which two holes were bored. "I'm just sad that such a beautiful area like the Hunter Valley is going to be turned into an unliveable landscape, ultimately, by the scourge of mining," Mr Franks said. The Wonnarua people's traditional lands are located in the Hunter Valley area of New South Wales. Contact Us These aborigines spoke the language of, and intermarried with those of Maitland, less frequently with those of the Paterson River and rarely with those of Muswell- brook. x\{xT_fL! $$!fdS!>p&QTD Ujmoql GjKj[Bks" Y[k^{g7(HxB`Kh[-_2H|v*u/'JKxkko"r6_z+Su,o?x(wDYQqEufWES^v0*X_9X+vxI6EZ|zd$]-/tdy.%(RVdD&WD/?K /T:}LFEay*h7~FE36obV*z2[-CFz~>/-r5 ' x^|XjU~H!-t]!KWjBaZN}{NRHgEB=hSE*wQ'D[t5mt/fqms94_~imuIXI%AnEb]~7MeI7g9?k&3 From this circle, the yuppang (pathway) stretched 550 paces to the goonambang (excrement place). Around the Manning River basin, there were reports of waterholes and gifts of food being laced with arsenic known as The Harmony so the jungle of the Barrington became a refuge for Aboriginal people. 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. Sometimes the animal imitated is the kangaroo - the men hopping along one after the other. Some of the men go to the goonambang and camp there, and during the night they swing a bull-roarer at intervals, and the women at the kackaroo beat their rugs and sing in response, whilst the men give the customary shout. Their bodies were painted in patterns so that they resembled weird and wonderful skeletons. The Rawden Bros merchants of Liverpool (England) and J. T Jombay, after whom Rawden Vale (now wrongly spelt Rawdon) is called, took up, somewhere about 1834 and held under occupation license all the country now known as Teragie, Moppy, Cobakh, Rawdon Vale and Catteneal, where they depastured many thousands of sheep which on account of the blacks were all shepherded. Robert S Fuller et al, The Astronomy of the Kamilaroi People and their Neighbours, 12. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baiame&oldid=1103216289, This page was last edited on 8 August 2022, at 21:04. [11] As at 2009, the Wonnarua Nation Aboriginal Corporation (WNAC) had three arrangements in place under Native Title and was planning to develop more. Kneeling in the middle of his canoe, the mariner would dip deeply on one side and then half turn and dip on the other side. Birds and fish, however, were cooked by being plastered with mud and placed amid hot coals or in a hole packed with heated stones. Wildlife dwindled. Monday, 10th June. When going to the creek for water they were careful to look in some other direction. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Tue 23 Aug 1927 Page 6 MURDER BY BLACKS. FamilySearch is an international, nonprofit organization dedicated to helping all people discover their family story. The noise was something like a drum. On the Main Creek, somewhere in the region of Mr. Gams timber mill, there is a stone standing on end, bending down hill. Thomas Rodwell being sworn, saidI am a free man residing at Mr. Mackenzies establishment at Williams River; Mr. M. is resident magistrate there; on a Thursday morning in April, about two oclock, I was awoke by two of Mr. Archibald Mossmans men, who informed me on the previous night they had been attacked by a party of blacks, and that they expected before they returned to the station, the remainder of the men there would be murdered by them; the distance between the two stations, is about seven miles; I acquainted Mr. M. of the circumstance, and he gave me some arms and ammunition, and told me if I could find any men on his or Mr. Mossmans stations, to take them with me, and apprehend two or three of the depredaters; I mustered seven stand of arms and ammunition; I and the two men, who came with the information there, went to Mr. Mossmans, where we obtained six other men, making in the whole party nine persons, all of whom were armed save two, and we then went to the blacks camp, which was about two miles from Mr. Mossmans station [on the opposite bank of present day Seaham], near a small creek; when we arrived there, we saw about 20 black men; we divided ourselves into two parties; a blackboy, called Lumpy, who we took with us, pointed out the blacks to us; we had seven stand of arms, which we did not conceal from the blacks; the deceased John Flynn, was not in the same party with me, but both parties were to meet before we went up to the blacks, with whom we intended to speak peaceably. As soon as the mothers are covered over, they are directed to continue making a low humming or buzzing sound, in order that they may not hear the guardians taking away the novices. The fashioning of these prongs was an important piece of work. Long before resource companies moved in to tap into the rich coal reserves below, surgeon James Bowman established the Ravensworth Estate in 1824 and it became a hub for horticultural experimentation. Learn more about this lands First Nations peoples and cultures. A canoe-shaped vessel of bark a couple of feet long, was half filled with water and placed near him. In 1789 an outbreak of what was probably smallpox in Sydney killed many Aborigines and caused a large number of survivors to flee. All these pantomimic representations are largely mixed with abominable and obscene gestures. In some vague fashion they sensed a spirit existence, but in the fifties and sixties it was generally accepted that a dead native would go down blackfellow, jump up white-fellow.. When the boys have been sufficiently smoked, their guardians take them away, and they are followed by the other men for about 100 yards. I was working at Irwins once and remember the [women] coming down opposite Tillegra house. 02 6571 1199, email He said the absence of a recognised native title holder, as was the case in the Hunter Valley, couldfurther complicate claims. Hurst wrote that fatal disease, introduced by licentious Europeans interfered with the natural source of supply and increase. The blacks mistook the whip cracks for gun shots, and made tracks for safety. . After some slight alteration he again, got into it. The blossoms of the honeysuckle provided nectar, as did that of the grass tree, and of the latter children were especially fond (Dawson 1830:244). The native name for the Williams was Durabang; the Paterson River, Yimmang. A. Cos. an interpreter. About Mr Gordon Bennetts interesting articles on our Earliest Inhabitants just concluded. The third difficulty is the racist presumptions of some of these texts. The attack on the home station failed through the attackers mistaking the crack of a bullock whip for a gunshot. When they get to the rear, they turn round and again throw pieces of hark over the heads of the men and boys. I was molested only last week by wild blacks between Dungog and Stroud and discharged my musket at several who threw spears at us. The [women], who played a part in this ceremony were made to lie down around the edge of the oval, al- though whether within or outside the defined ring I am not able to say with certainty. They had a clever and simple method of cleaning any fish they caught, and one that 1 have not seen practiced elsewhere. By Lauren Hubbard Published: Feb 27, 2023. This seemed to conclude one de- finite part of the ceremonies, for the women were not permitted to witness what followed. After the dances and games are over, one of the men sometimes sounds a goonandhakeea (excrement-eater) in the bush near the camp. Fitzpatric does not comment on this and the poisonings are so far apart in time that it is impossible to say if they are one and the same or two separate massacres. established a heifer station at Bakers Creek, twelve miles north-east of Gloucester, now known as Upper Ghangat. It was no light task to make a boomerang, for a good deal of skill and more than an ordinary amount of patience was necessary. The perpetrators were the Barrington River natives. It is possible that this was the party of twenty six soldiers under Captain Reynolds mentioned by Gordon Bennett and probably one of the grim expeditions of extermination mentioned but not described by him. The depositions taken were duly transmitted by me to His Majestys Attorney- General the following day, and the prisoner was forwarded from Dungog in charge of two of the mounted police, who were expressly sent for, being apprehensive of a rescue by the turbulent blacks of the district. But he was about somewhereintangible and dread- conveying. The Valley was always there. As with all aspects of Aboriginal history in the Hunter Region, evidence relating to diet is almost exclusively related to the coastal areas. About the middle 30s there occurred a grim tragedy on the A. Some of the game caught during the day is cooked for the novices, the bones and sinews being taken out of it, and the pieces cut small, so that they may not be able to distinguish what animals flesh is being given to them. Glencore is seeking approval to build a new open-cut pit and mine an additional 135 million tonnes of coal until 2044. They were formed in two divisions, and kept crossing and recrosslng the path, interlacing as the met at the run, and descending the hill rapidly, all the time yelling at the top of their voices. water with eager eyes, would watch until the shoal came within striking distance. 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. Naturally they avoided as much as possible the necessity of going through this process. This would take out the sap and render the wood reasonably soft for application of the tools used as scrapers. They never smiled nor did they ever applaud. Discover more about our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection objects and information available in our Library. Among the tribes in the Williams valley it was not uncommon for the medicine- men of hostile tribes to sneak into a camp at night under cover of the darkness, or a cloud, and with a net of peculiar construction garrotte one of the tribe, drag him a few hundred yards from the camp, cut up his abdomen obliquely, take out the kidney and caul-fat and then stuff a handful of sand and grass into the wound. he and his tribe seem perfectly quiet I think it may be as well to take no notice of him, unless he or his friends show a I disposition to disturb the settlers on the Williams. [8], A range of alternate names for the Wonnarua people are Wanaruah, Wanaruwa, Wonnuaruah, Wannerawa, Wonarura, and Wonnahare. Wildcard, crossword The keerango, and other men who remained at the womens camp have been standing by as spectators, directing the proceedings all the time - the principal headmen being among them. The other method of securing fish was by spearing them. The affair took place on the flat about 100 yards south of Camerons fence. Aborigines of the Hunter Valley Helen Brayshaw - https://goo.gl/rNPyFY. They were distributed over the district in local groups known as Nurra were were located [in villages] at distances about [12 kilometres apart]. The children, even from the tenderest years, appeared to have appetites as voracious as their elders. Australian Indigenous family. Their contact experiences with the white men were less violent than for other groups who inhabited the banks of the Hunter River. At Port Stephens, where the tribe numbered in the vicinity of a hundred persons, men, women and children, two totems did duty for the community. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Fri 25 Apr 1919 Page 3 The Earliest Inhabitants. Other plants indicated by the literature to have been exploited for food in coastal regions include various fruits (Caswell 1841), including a sort of wild plum (Threlkeld in Gunson 1974:55) and the stalk of the water lily (Scott 1929:41; Fawcett 1898:152). Fires were always kept burning about the camp. There were formerly several marked trees, around the goonambang, but they have all been burnt down and destroyed by bushfires. The sisters of the novices each pick up a piece of burning bark from a fire close by the ring, where they have been smouldering ready for use. On riding about I noticed a large gum-tree deeply carved with hieroglyphics, which I was informed was a record for future generations that a bumbat had been celebrated. Whatever number of animals were required for the feast would be selected and openedThe paunch would be ripped open and it s con tents of undigested grass devoured with the greatest relish. After his sentence was completed in Newcastle in 1817 he lived in Sydney selling watercolour illustrations of natural history subjects and of the Aborigines. It would be made of a long, flat piece of hardwood, pointed at one end, fitted loosely Into the ey e and made firm with a wooden wedge driven along the side. The Australian Museum strives to provide First Nation communities with information in an accessible form, about the cultural objects A family tree is a diagram that shows the relationships between people in your family. Derby is a King and speaks English well. See what others have contributed about your ancestors. Lyn MacBain, who hasstudied local history in Singleton for the past 30 years, said the homestead should stay put. 1 have been informed that in some tribes the blacks use a vine to aid in climbing, putting it round the tree and working It upwards to form a continual support. After the owner had spent some time in exhibiting his prize, a comrade would calmly approach him and secure possession of it to go through the same performance. (R`u'mnyp@=F`PftG; f0+v~qcBd;I{vs>;[ \LX[ 'uEq?~T-I3OQZEpY3q=SBNX_> $Cwo,L"V1*E 9FC%dS.J$y^,xg"z Cf`#?\%)K9*L=JE. The two men now separate, one going round one side, and one round the other, and again meet at the entrance of the goonambang, where they stand and dance, shaking their boughs and boomerangs for a brief period. I saw the trees tattooed and marked for a hundred yards round the ring, but I never saw any ceremonies there. However, it did not tally with what I had seen elsewhere, or had been told by natives whose confidence I had won. Social - dances, association meetings and gatherings, visitors, and general gossip columns. Image credit: gadigal yilimung (shield) madeby UncleCharlesChickaMadden. I would respectfully call on His Excellency for instructions how to proceed that such evil and improper conduct may be speedily checked and further evil prevented. Take your designs to the next level. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Tue 21 Jun 1932 Page 6 TATTOOED BLACKS. Elizabeth and Jack might still conceive . Some are said to have survived the operation for three days. That, so far as I can recollect, concluded that particular ceremony. This was all their bodily protection against the elements, and their fullest concession to the conventions im- posed by the white people about. Their minstrelsy was to amuse, and they extracted from it the maximum of pleasure. We have over a billion unique profiles in our tree, and growing. I have seen it. A complete guide to the Duttons, from 1883 to Yellowstone. Their attitude towards visiting blacks was also worthy of note. The men now enter the ring, and dance round a few times, shouting out the names of remarkable places, after which all hands walk away to their respective camps. At Dungog a figure of sixty per cent is given. Fame Cove was taboo after the sun had fallen, and no native would linger in that vicinity when the shadows began to lengthen. It was an oval- shaped piece of hardwood some two feet wide having a hand-grip on the back made of a length of vine affixed In holes made for the purpose. The flesh was a delicate white color, and I confess that I tasted it one one occasion only and found it good. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 26: 320-340. | [8] See also [ edit] [1], The Gringai are a known clan of the Wonnarua people, whose traditional lands are the Allyn River valley,[9] and include what is now known as Dungog, Paterson, Gresford, Brookfield,[7] Tocal,[10] to the headwaters of the Williams and Chichester rivers. The toys in our collection were acquired between 1885 and 2018, and are made from various materials. These weapons were said to be very effective in a fight. An assigned man was splitting timber near the head of Tin Creek, when four blacks came along and watched him at work for some time. It usually had a head of some descriptlon at one end, shaped either like a hammer or a hall. They have also attacked Mr Nowlands station, a few miles lower down, and the enclosed from Mr Cook, which I have just received, will disclose to you the tenor of their conduct towards his men. [7] A cave near Milbrodale contains many Wonnarua Aboriginal paintings, including a large figure of a man who may be Baiame. This Flash Tommy used to put on a long white shirt and walk up and down the town saying he was Tommy Gorton. Mr Gorton was the Magistrate at the time. Each child, at birth, was placed in a certain class or totem, and could only marry some person from an entirely different class or totem, their particular classification being indicated by its distinguishing name. 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. This was usually done immediately after birth by the mother or some of the old women of the tribe, and as tho practice is common among blacks in all parts of the continent it can be accepted that this marked feature of the aboriginal physiognomy is thought to be beautiful. Give contextual explanation and translation from your sites ! One man, Green, escaped to Underbank after a flight of over 25 miles; the last spear was thrown almost in sight of Underbank House. They ranged in length from three-feet to three-feet six-inches, being shaped like a club and having a slightly tapering end . Of basalt (maximum dimensions 13 8 2.25 inches), the stone was flat on both sides, one having been worn smooth by constant rubbing. Online help is available anytime from other FamilySearch users. After these singular appetisers, the chief would throw the carcase on the fire and leave the game to cook. Naturally I was eager to see this Interesting spectacle, and rode once more to the camp at the foot of the hill some days later. - As before stated, the novices are taken to the goon- ambang (excrement place), where they remain till the women and children have departed from the other circle, which would occupy half an hour, or perhaps longer. 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. 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