The men would decorate themselves with pipe-clay and ochre, painting fantastic patterns about their faces and bodies, and they would wear head-dresses of weird and wonderful designs. This station was In the care of 4 or 5 unarmed men (convicts). There (were edible roots In the gullies, wild- fruits in the brushes. Their appearance certainly gave every indication of the justice of this claim for them. Discover your family history. Dr. McKinlay records that they believed in supernatural beings whom they called Maamba. Boggle. It was amazing the speed at which these seemingly cumbersome craft could be driven through the water by their owners, their lightness and shallow draught having a good deal to do with this. During the day-time the novices are sometimes allowed to sit up, keeping their eyes towards the ground, but are not allowed to speak to anyone. In every creek, in every gully, lay dead blacks, and Ganghat became anathema; a place accursed, Then another name arose tor the locality Belbora (now mostly called Belbowrie.) Baal Bora to signify that the circular ceremonial of the Boombit should never more be enacted there Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Fri 9 Nov 1923 Page 3 The Pioneers. THE WONNARUA TRIBE AND LANGUAGE. The Gloucester Advocate (NSW : 1905 - 1954) Tuesday 7 March 1939 p 4 Old Days and Blacks. and the only cessation was when all burst into screams of laughter. The Port Stephens blacks : recollections of William Scott. Indeed it seemed almost im- possible to hit a black with lance or missile if he had his cooreel in his hand. They seemed always to regard life as a huge joke to be enjoyed to the utmost. It was roasted in the ashes and pounded to a paste between two stones. Mr R. Dawson describes a meeting with some strange blacks. It was manifestly a mere mockery to call upon the prisoner to make his defence before persons by whom he could not be understood, Mr. Nichols then submitted that the prisoner was entitled to his acquittal in point of law. I. am informed they are camped between my place and Mr Boydells. Dungog was the ultimate limit of settlement for ten years or more. It was their custom to seek his advice and assistance in almost every emergency that arose. What struck him was the wonderful time they kept, and their singing at the end of every performance. The poisoning of Aboriginal people was known as the Harmony because in this way peace was supposed to be achieved. I immediately sent for Macintyre and the black and after obtaining the whole account, kept the latter in custody, and the next day were engaged in collecting a. party from some of the stations around the Gloucester, with arms and ammunition to go in pursuit of the murderers at daylight to-morrow morning. They always declared that it was far easier to carry the rigid body than one that was limp and flopping. it appears that from 14 to 20 blacks had come with a decided intention of killing some of the sheep if they could not get flour. One or more of the tribes who intended, to be present may have been unavoidably detained on the way, and do not reach the main camp until a few days after the novices have been taken away. The kangaroo, practically ex- tinct about Port Stephens now was in the middle decade of last century, the favorite food of the blacks. 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. who fully believed in an after existence, and told me many curious and interesting legends, especially one relating to the stars. Without more ado the corpse was lowered into the grave, which was filled and carefully levelled. 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. The first is, the Gringai are mentioned as occupying the headwaters of the Allyn, Paterson, Williams and Chichester rivers, as well as, according to Scott, the lower reaches of the Hunter and Karuah rivers. Eather, and a description of the last combined Bora ceremony on the family property in 1852. The ironbark (teekurah), was mostly favored for making them. all one afternoon, until stopped by the manager of the station and his men, but while the manager was persuading the. YES, there is a family tree template on Word. These men, who are called keerang (bushes), approach the kweealbang in single file, each one holding a green bush in front of him, which hides his face and body as far as the waist, and as they walk along they make a shrill sound resembling the howling of the dingo, or wild dog. Oysters were to be had for the gathering, and the blacks appreciated the succulent shell-fish mightily. describes how a band of blacks stole a child, the daughter of a Mrs. Easterbrook, whose husband was a clerk of the A.A. Company at Stroud. Marsupials were in abundance among the ridges and on the flat lands; there were birds In the trees and on the swamps. Those who escaped the bullet were killed by falling over the cliffs and being smashed on the rocks below thus, was the whole tribe of blacks with one or two exceptions which inhabited this part of the district exterminated. After being prepared by their families, the boys were now ready to experience the transition from boyhood to manhood. The coffin was lifted upon the shoulders. 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.. THE Wonnarua language is more nearly related . I never knew the blacks to steal anything from our premises except water-melons, of which they were extremely fond. This continued until the grass began to shoot on the grave, and then one night the tribe suddenly disappeared and we saw nothing of them for several months. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Fri 22 Dec 1905 Page 5 Scraps of Early History. Possum, bears [koalas] and snakes were relished Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Tue 3 Sep 1918 Page 3 DAYS GONE BY. She then passed the crossed ends of the cords rapidly to and fro between her closed lips until the blood, drawn by the friction dropped freely into the water, discolouring it to a crimson fluid. The waters of the bay teemed with fish of every description, easily taken at all times. Wildlife dwindled. 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. Two young Blacks who made a nuisance of themselves by continually begging for food at a certain accommodation house on Fosterton Road, were easily disposed of a little poison was put in their food. Some are said to have survived the operation for three days. If some of the men have remained in the camp all day, they also will proceed to the goonambang and meet the others there. Discover cultural material and objects in our Indonesian collection. I was present at [a corroboree] 55 years ago with the rest of our family. The site is listed on the Register of the National Estate and is considered a sacred site. There was, I knew, another and more pregnant reason that no one would disclose. He is always painted in front view; Dharramalan is drawn in profile. to 30-In. Old Mr. Collier, the school teacher, asked the blacks to permit the school boys to see the ceremony. The mothers of the boys are on the outside, or farthest from the fire, which is composed of pieces of wood and bark, slowly burning within the circle of green bushes which are laid around it. The manner in which they ate fish was always a marvel to me. The top, fitted into this slot, would be made firm with cords of animal sinews or flbre ( and coated oyer with gum from the grass-tree. 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. 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. No longer would they eat the female species of game, or collect fruits and yams or even eat with the women. "Government groups or industry might then find it's easier to divide the group because they pick their favourites and choose the people that they want to speak to," he said. The body of a man belonging to a strong family and with a big following would doubled up, heels to hips and face to knees, and the arms folded. By this time the men had commenced a steady clapping of barragans (boomerangs) or any other implement they may have had. The attack on the home station failed through the attackers mistaking the crack of a bullock whip for a gunshot. They would treat him hospitably, and talk with him about general matters of tribal interest. Day broke and the sleeping blacks arose. Cabbage Tree Island was literally covered with them then, and I recall dropping fourteen in one discharge of my little double-barrelled gun. Australian Indigenous family. Groups living near the Wonnarua include the Darkinjung and the Wirad. No one worried about a Coronial inquiry in those days. The men beleaguered in the hut were driven to dire straits, and as a last resource mixed arsenic in dampers and placed them where the natives had easy access to them. The Earliest Inhabitants - Aboriginal Tribes of the District. One of the men would then sound a bull-roarer just after dark in the vicinity of the camp, and next morning everyone would pack up and proceed by easy stages towards the appointed tryst, dances and songs being indulged in at night at each of the stages along their route. When the keerang come near, they spread out in a row in front of the men and boys, and throw pieces of bark over them, dancing as they do so. Figure 4: Richard Browne (17711824). The soldiers came by boat via Newcastle and landing at Clarence Town marched in search of the tribe of blacks. 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. 1. in that locality. This website may contain names, images and voices of deceased Aboriginal and TorresStrait Islanderpeoples. There never was anything of permanency about a blackfellows home. The station teamster, returning with supplies signalled his approach in the time- honored custom of cracking his bullock whip and bullock whips those far-away days were no doubt just as effective instruments as they are to-day in the back country centres of Australia. Island, and on Low Island, near the head of navigation of the Karuah River. punitive expeditions, and fixes the date at, 48. 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. Each messenger on arriving at his destination would be received in the manner already described, and would hand the bull-roarer to the head-man, who would take charge of it, and the tails would be distributed to the men to whom they had been sent. 'gxI'wHOs$;I qv,1*dFnuv1:d8G+2(Qke >W8T 9s+-uanLm When the Wonnarua see the wedge tailed eagle, they know Kawal is looking over them, protecting them. Some distance on the way they hear the keerang coming to meet then, cooeeing like the dingo as before, and walking in the usual way. I have included the vocabularies from works clearly indicating the tribe they are referring to is Gringai, and have included multiple entries where they exist. Groups living near the Wonnarua include the Darkinjung and the Wirad After a while the former said to them, Put your hand into the split and help me burst the log. They did so. His black boy said that he would see where they had gone, and going to the camp showed, a snear stuck in the ashes of the fire with a corn cob tied on the point. 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. 4 0 obj They wrote down what they thought they heard, but the Gringai language (Kathang or Gathang) does not have equiv- alent English consonants. When the Wonnarua see the wedge tailed eagle, they know Kawal is looking over them, protecting them. A cord, made of possum hair, was passed around his body a couple of times, the ends being held by the woman who knelt on the ground, leaning over the little canoe of water. Perhaps there were fewer than that. On the first night of the arrival of the novices at the kweealbang, some human excrement is given to them as they sit in the camp. My fathers name was called first, followed by quite a number of others, when suddenly, on a certain name being mentioned, the bearers of the body lurched forward as though the corpse had moved. Whirling the stick with amazing speed its hardened point would emerge from the pith, spilling a fiery dust that dropped on a little heap of soft, fine bark placed to catch it. And then I read Mary Gilmores book Old Days, Old Ways, telling of how the blacks felled, the trees across the rivers to make fish traps. See Google Map https://goo.gl/maps/4PwZb8sMZHo. It needed but little to divert the simple minds of the natives. In the early days of the settlement they had not come into very close contact with civilisation and he speaks of them as refusing to eat bread when it was offered to them. The novices are then put back in their former places, and the keerang proceed to erect their quarters, by adding to one end of the same line of forks and bushes already described. As part of the ceremonies, the aspirants undergo the ordeal of having an upper front tooth either bitten off or knocked out with a stick prepared for the occasion. 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. This cleared space was connected with the top of a hill and another cleared space by a narrow path. These logs were generally supposed to have been left by floods, but I never felt satisfied, for they were mostly about the same distance apart. The upper end of this pole is ornamented by having, a bunch of green leaves or grass tied around it. Early in the thirties the A.A. Coy. 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. used or I believe ever heard of by our blacks. Choose the design that fits your site. Shortly there was. The black warriors lay down and died all around. In general he precedes the coming of natives from distant parts, when they assemble to celebrate certain of their ceremonies, such as the knocking out of teeth in the mystic ring, or when they are performing some dance. Some time after around 1841 the original Hookes and Laurie family moving in after that date. Attention: This site does not support the current version of your web browser. Baime also created Kawal (Ka-wal), to watch over the Wonnarua people. 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. Birds were easily secured and were an abundant part of the daily meal. In this section, explore all the different ways you can be a part of the Museum's groundbreaking research, as well as come face-to-face with our dedicated staff. On another occasion, at a much later date, I came across another initiation ceremony when proceeding through the bush. Search for a specific ancestor in FamilySearch. Sanitation was unknown to the tribe, with most unpleasant consequences when a camp had been established at one spot for some length of time. They were distributed over the district in local groups known as Nuria and were located at distances about eight miles apart in what the histo- rians of those days termed villages. And, no matter where he deposited his store, nor how many knew of its existence, the weapons were never touched again until the owner removed them. The flesh was never more than half roasted indeed it was sometimes almost raw. The natives of each party harangued each other in turns, and then the strange blacks placed their spears against a tree and gave an invitation to join them. 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 tributary mentioned is Dog Trap Creek. The attack on the solitary shepherds was tragically successful and five fell victims to the vengeance of the natives,. Dr McKinlay relates an interesting anecdote in this connec- tion that is worth repeating. "There seems to be some sort of view that Indigenous groups need to be reaching consensus on all matters," he said. The mothers of the novices are painted with red and white stripes on the face, chest and arms. A man standing at the butt of the tree commences to cut steps as if going to climb it, and a few of the men run about and throw sticks at the [possums] tail. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954). 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. 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A newly releasedindependent heritage review commissioned by the NSW Department of Planning as part of its assessment for the mine extension determined the Ravensworth Estate was "likely to meet the threshold for state heritage significance for its historical heritage value". from 1820 to 1921 by A.N. 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. make arrangements for the district constable and some others, together with some soldiers, being sent up to apprehend the offenders. 75-81 York StreetSingleton NSW 2330, telephone Macarty then took the whites and put us across the creek where the dam now is. Thus Fanny would always have success at fishing because of the peculiar lure in her fingers. At Dungog a figure of sixty per cent is given. Kiripit (now Rawdon Vale) 26 miles west of Glouces- ter, was then a sheep station, managed by Robert Mackenzie, afterwards Sir Robert. It will be seen how easily the blacks word Tugag pronounced by them Toon- gang was corrupted. Included in the WNAC agreements are health, education, employment and welfare benefits to flow from mining rights grants to Centennial Coal, Ashton Mine, and from Newcastle Coal. Gordon Bennett (reprinted 1964) p3. There was no pretence at architecture or even orderly erection of the crude break-wind. Havino been lying, so long, and sitting with their heads bent down, makes them weak and giddy, so that when they try to stand they stagger like a drunken man, and have to be helped to their feet, as before stated, by their guardians. This being they knew as Coen. 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 make a guttural noise as the novices are shown each tree, and also in going from one tree to another. Swiftly punitive bands were organised to hunt them down. The Australian Museum respects and acknowledges the Gadigalpeople as the FirstPeoples and TraditionalCustodians ofthe land and waterways on which theMuseumstands. Scott Franks, of the Plains Clans Wonnarua People (PCWP), believedthe colonial past of the RavensworthEstateinvolvedthe brutal massacre of First Nations people. This was carefully secured, taken out into the bay, and, with great solemnity, committed to the deep. The women then step out of the ring, and stand a few yards from it, where they remain till the conclusion of the performance. King Micky, of Cooplacurripa, was well tattooed on the chest and on the muscles of the arms. the men and women march round. has publicly denounced the use of the word Guringai. Examination of Rodwell continuedit was not more than a minute after we came up to their camp, that the blacks threw their spears, and boomarings at us; they attacked us without any provocation on our part; after they threw their spears, four or five shots were fired from our party; I fired, and the deceased fired also I think at the man who wounded him ; the blacks still continued to throw their spears at us after they had wounded the deceased; Flynn pulled out the spear first, then discharged his fowling piece, and followed the prisoner; the deceased called out to me that he had been speared, and pointed to the black who had speared him; I afterwards took off Flynns shirt, and examined the wound ; the wound bled very little; I did not think it a dangerous one; the deceased did not complain of much pain; he walked the first day after he had received the wound, I should think 13 or 14 miles; on the next day he walked to the Courthouse at Williams River, which was about eight miles distance ; on the following morning he left the Courthouse to go to the General Hospital at Newcastle, but on the way I heard that he was taken ill, and conveyed by one of the drays of the Australian Agricultural Company to. A relic of those wild old days was Broken-backed Tommy. Tommy had survived the morning of the flight when Bagdells party drove him and his panicstricken comrades over the cliff on Mount Mackenzie, and he narrowly escaped death again when years afterwards, the erstwhile fugitive Green recognised and attacked him in the old Kitchen at Underbank. The first recipient never troubled about being deprived of possession, and enjoyed more the uses to which It was put by his friends. The same noise and blowing was repeated upon lowering the remains into the arms of his brother, who received them, and carefully placed it in what lie considered the most comfortable position, being most careful not a particle of earth should touch the body. Turning their attention from the cattle raid, the blacks attacked the hut where the A. It was this ordeal that tested their physical and emotional abilities almost to breaking point. Figure 2: Richard Browne (17711824) was an early Australian convict artist and illustrator who was transported from Ireland to New South Wales. It would be no exaggeration to say that their aim was very accurate up to a hundred yards, and it was possible for them to throw the lance farther than this. Ganghat . Discover your story through inspiring classes and speakers from all over the globe. The Gloucester Advocate (NSW : 1905 - 1954) Tuesday 6 November 1923 p 1. By this time the keerang have reached the clear space at the keelaybang, where they throw down their bushes and spread out in a line in front of the novices, and jump about, swaying their arms, after which they retire to one end of the camp. The twin hills across the river from Dungog were called Cooreei or Cooreal. H e explained that he never felt a hit from a nullah, and only realised he had been struck when he noticed the blood streaming down his [face]. The clean, white bark was then split into string, and crocheted into dilly bags and such. Wonnarua Nation Aboriginal Corporation chief executive Laurie Perry said there were "tit-for-tat skirmishes" on the land, but "there was no massacre on the site or recorded massacre on the site". Lettris In regard to the captured women, if she belonged to the same sub-class or totem as the capturer, he would have to let her go or yield her up to someone of a different class. 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. Its history could impactthe future of mining in the valley. Throughout the Gringai country [there] were many [aboriginal cemeteries]. On the north, the Manning for some distance bounded this territory and they occupied the country as far west as the Barrington Tops, which, according to the old residents of the Upper Allyn River, they visited in summer time. 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