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. To the blacks the name became an anathema; knew them no more (sic). In 1999 the Wonnarua Nation Aboriginal Corporation acquired the site of the former St Clair Mission where their forebears lived. Swiftly punitive bands were organised to hunt them down. The removal of Cabeen Paddy [recently mentioned] and Cocky from this quarter has had the desired effect. established a heifer station at Bakers Creek, twelve miles north-east of Gloucester, now known as Upper Ghangat. 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. They seemed always to regard life as a huge joke to be enjoyed to the utmost. The fish after being cleaned appeared as though, it had just come out of the water. On the bank of the Kerripit almost in front of the homestead at Stobo lie the remains of these old-time shepherds. . and the only cessation was when all burst into screams of laughter. He told those that were with him, to make the sign of peace with them which they did by waving the right hand over the head and then pointing to the ground. There was no pretence at architecture or even orderly erection of the crude break-wind. A. Before Baime there was nothing, everything was sleeping. The fitting was done so cleverly that the whole would be as solid as though in one piece. Amongthe dense patchwork of open-cut coal mines in the New South Wales Hunter Valley sits a sandstone colonial homestead dating back to the early 1800s. The fire got rid of those. Hence the name Baal Belbora. Just as the t in tinko was turned into d in dingo so the t in Tugag became d, and the nasality of the final g being dropped the word became Dungag and Dungog. I was working at Irwins once and remember the [women] coming down opposite Tillegra house. University of Newcastle history professor Lyndall Ryan, who has spent almost a decade cataloguing colonial frontier massacres for an online map, found evidence of a massacre further up the Hunter Valley, but not near the Ravensworth homestead. The Dutton Family Tree, Explained. They will recreate to turn it into a cultural centre that will sustain and strengthen their community and they are pursuing reclamation and recreation of language, material culture, art, family and public history . I verily believe that they would have held a shark. Family tree diagrams have the same basic design. I. am informed they are camped between my place and Mr Boydells. My old friend the late John Hopson stated that he had been informed by J. W. Boydell that in summertime the Patterson River Blacks ascended the Barrington Tops via the Allyn River Valley and on his visit in Dec 1915, we found a stone axe. Afterwards the gift, whatever it was, never seemed to have any particular owner, for it would be free for all the tribe. But they seldom did this In the presence of the women. A long neck of land formed by the junction of a creek with the river [near Gresford] was the place chosen as that of interment. On perceiving these Billy flatly re- fused to accompany us. There was also a fear of certain localities for no given reason; there was the disincli- nation to do certain things at certain times; there was the strange refusal to speak of, or mention the name of one that had passed away. 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. 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. They extended up the Hunter Valley as far as Singleton. Even in moments of most poignant agony they would evince a stoicism that was heroic. No black would dream of going fishing after having partaken of a feed of fruit ) nor would he accom- pany any- one who had been similarly guilty. I was present at [a corroboree] 55 years ago with the rest of our family. Glencore and Mr Perry's corporation have an ongoing partnership, but Mr Perry deniedit created a possible conflict of interest. Great care was exercised in selecting the right tree for the purpose as any fault, caused by a knot or protuberance, would spoil the value of the sheet when stripped. From E. M. McKinlay, Esq., J.P., and C. L. Brown, Esq., Magistrates in the District of Dungog 1845:- https://goo.gl/UqHQ93 :p27. This is said to be done to cause the novices hands and arms to grow stronger. A. The Wonnarua people, otherwise written Wanarruwa, are a group of Aboriginal Australian people united by strong ties of kinship, and who survived in family groups or clans scattered along the inland area of what is now known as the Upper Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia. Enter the name of family members in the editing box. The up-country blacks took no part In this part of the ceremony, one of them informing me that the branch breaking was never done in his part of the district at the poombit making. 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. . The stripping operation was carried out with an exact judgment, lines being cut cross- wise with a tomahawk around and across the tree so that the section removed would be of the required size and shape. 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. Indeed it seemed almost im- possible to hit a black with lance or missile if he had his cooreel in his hand. 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. This noise is made so that if the string of one of the bull-roarers should break - which sometimes happens - the women would not hear it falling on the ground. . This is an error, as the word is an aboriginal one meaning, a place between two rivers near their junction hence, the name of this Estate, according to the blacks pronunciation, is Caning-gula . The day after the arrival of the Keeranga-or it may be in a few days time-very early in the morning, perhaps before. We could hear the clashing of nullas and spears, and the sound of the boomerangs clipping the tree leaves. 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. After being prepared by their families, the boys were now ready to experience the transition from boyhood to manhood. Its history could impactthe future of mining in the valley. Some with animals, others with birds and hands cut out of the bark. Many textiles reflect the traditional methods of production, design and use. The main camp of the natives who were present at the ceremonies was pitched in an open forest, on some gently sloping ground a few chains easterly from the left bank of a small watercourse, a tributary of the Allyn River, within Portion No. Mustering the Tribes.-When it is found that there are a sufficient number of boys old enough for initiation, the head-man of the tribe whose turn it is to call the. 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. His audience would listen intently until they had mastered the words, the tune and all the business that went with it. After performing Divine service in the forenoon, I left Mr. White to do so in the afternoon, and set off at 2, accompanied by Captain Moffatt for Tellighary, where we arrived at little past five, and slept , there there that night. There I. saw a large fire burning in the centre of a cleared oval space. 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. "We don't have an established relationship with Glencore we have an established relationship with every mining company and developer that operates in Hunter Valley," he said. Bring to life your familys history by exploring the lives of those that came before you. Even the casual white man, uninitiated Into the ways of the chase, could have gleaned a living with little difficulty in that land of milk and honey. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Tue 14 May 1935 Page 6 BATTLE WITH THE BOWMAN BLACKS. The Port Stephens blacks : recollections of William Scott (National Library of Australia) (SCO), The journal of Charles Boydel (State Library of NSW) (CBJ). After a while the former said to them, Put your hand into the split and help me burst the log. They did so. The Blacks of Dungog, Port Stephens and Gresford. The Blacks of Dungog, Port Stephens and Gresford. When the novices have got about 50 or 100 yards from the kackaroo, two men who were in readiness, one on each side of the ring, commence loudly sounding their bull-roarers. Strangely enough neither men nor women adorned themselves with ornaments of any description, being content to present themselves to the world as Nature so fashioned them. Lyn MacBain, who hasstudied local history in Singleton for the past 30 years, said the homestead should stay put. Until the Great Sky Spirit Baiame opened his eyes'. Among themselves there were seldom any disputes or quarrels. Little trouble was taken over their preparation, it seeming to be a point of practice to scorch feathers and flesh into a delectable outer covering One of the most fancied foods was the flying-fox (kundewung), and great was the excitement that prevailed when these creatures were about. The Melanesian cultural area is the nearest neighbour of Australian and the museum holds a significant collection of cultural material from Melanesian nations. The Wonnarua. Australian Race 1887, pp350-359. There never was anything of permanency about a blackfellows home. When it became necessary to change the fish diet, the blacks had a wide expanse of bush wherever to forage, a territory at that time teeming with game of all descrip- tions. 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. . When the last spark of the fire had been extinguished and the last wreath of smoke had eddied into nothingness, the women were uncovered and the Port Stephens blacks, accompanied by the poombits, ran up the nearby trees like so many monkeys and began breaking small branches off the limbs. The sisters of each boy then go up to him, and rub their feet on his ankles. 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. When such a contingent gets within about a days journey of the main camp, a messenger is sent on to report that they will arrive next day or the day following. Women were not allowed to see drawings of Baiame nor approach Baiame sites, which are often male initiation sites (boras). There were a few aboriginals about in those times. We would like to acknowledge the Wonnarua people who are the traditional custodians of this land. At various times they were ordered to assume uncomfortable positions and to remain so until the sun crossed the sky. To this, as the present means of quieting them, I was obliged to accede. 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 remnant of this fine old tribe is sadly degenerated by contact with the whites and strong drink; but still you may find them possessing good traits of character. Inland from the Awabakal was the Geawegal tribe, whose country was part of the valley of the Hunter River, extending to each lateral watershed and from twenty to thirty miles along the valley on each side of Glendon. Groups living near the Wonnarua include the Darkinjung and the Wirad The second is the spelling of Indigenous words. When these leaves get dry, it will be considered about time to bring the boys back to the Kweealbang. three inches In length affixed at a slight angle to receive the slightly hollowed end of the spear shaft. 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.. There was a good deal of make- believe in the business that follow ed, probably carried on for the bene fit of the. 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. In this section, there's a wealth of information about our collections of scientific specimens and cultural objects. Patersons River, where he died on the same day By Mr. Nichols I had no warrant to apprehend any of the blacks; I know. In collecting this information, a few problems have been encountered. Today 8.3% or 2,033 people in Singleton identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander in the 2021 Census. 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. 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 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. After the novices have been about a week at the keelaybang another mob of men from the womens camp make their appearance during the afternoon. Their creation spirit is Baiami, also known as Koin, the creator of all things and the Keeper of the Valley. 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. 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. The marsupials ran in large mobs, easily driven by the nimble natives to a point where waiting groups could spear them with ease. Instinct and. He came straight up to the group, and within a dozen or so paces of us, threw on the ground his spears and boomerangs. At the end of the song they would burst into shrieks of raucous merriment. The markings as those who have seen the figures of early-day blacks will know when finalised were quite a white and weird color. Ironically, it is directly above Baime cave where Europeans first viewed the Upper Hunter, led from Sydney by a tracker from the Wonnarua tribe. 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. Gordon Bennett (reprinted 1964) p3. My Descendant Group was respon- sible to maintain the country on the South to South Eastern side of the Barrington Tops and associated Rivers and Valleys, which run into the Hunter Valley. Birds were easily secured and were an abundant part of the daily meal. 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. 1. In this way they were deliciously cooked, and indeed the doctor relates that he frequently dealt with his own game and fish in this manner. 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. Wildlife dwindled. Then there was the awfully cruel poisoning of the blacks at Bakers Creek out- station of the A.A. Co. (VMR, VHR). Muh! (Now!) Another favorite food was the cobra found in decaying logs on the banks of the tidal watercourses. After the novices have been shown the goonambang, and all the marked trees around it, they are next taken away by their guardians and the old men, several miles into the bush, to a camp called keelaybang (urinating place). Baiame is often shown with internal decorations such as waistbands, vertical lines running down the body, bands and dots. Three. One woman of each small tribe was usually dedicated this way, and to her was entrusted the task ct fashioning the fishing lines, the virtues accruing from her innate powers over fish being of course communicated to the lines she made. 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. While the covering is being placed over the women, a man runs away to the goolambang and tells the men there that everything is ready. The settlers and government troopers retaliated with random shootings and massacres. 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. Choose the design that fits your site. When first his family came here, he said, the rivers were full of big fish, perch mullet and herrings, so that any evening he and his brothers went fishing, their mothers large pan was heard to sing, and sing again. However, it did not tally with what I had seen elsewhere, or had been told by natives whose confidence I had won. (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. After a great deal of fuss the men announced that they would make an- other attempt to find the poomblts, and to the accompaniment of clashing spears and hoarse shoutings, dashed out into the screen of bushes again. They were in groups here and there in a little valley. Never at any time could we get them to men- tion the name of anyone who had died. Figure 4: Richard Browne (17711824). Before doing so, however, I peered into it and saw only a piece of rock crystal. 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 FamilySearch is an international, nonprofit organization dedicated to helping all people discover their family story. They immediately pack up all their movables, and start away some distance to another locality which has been previously decided upon by the headmen of the several tribes, and there they erect a new camp, being assisted in this work by some of the old men who have been directed to remain with them. Fitzpatric seems to play down the extent of these engagements. 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. @!Jnm=z9A0h>n~q8FZG7dJNe)u&k3mNImpTyJdqynqM|49z?1Lg9RWy5HBJ4E>+w Coola-benn, Native Chief of Ashe Island, Hunters RIver. Before Baime there was nothing, everything was sleeping. a stir when a detachment entered the circle, and with dancing, yelling, and gesticulations, and brandishing of arms at intervals, all made a rush to the fire, yelling, and jumping on it until extinguished, when they retired. These are excerpts from publicly available documents, mostly from the 1800s and early 1900s relating to the Gringai, giving an indication of their customs and way of life. No European casualties are mentioned but it said that the Aboriginals had acquired some guns which was the reason for the retreat. If the course of performances in the bush have been completed, the boys may be returned next day, but if some further instruction is necessary, the date is arranged accordingly. At the given signal the men would dash into the water until up to their mid. 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. 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. Under the open side leaves are thickly strewn on the ground, for the men and boys to lie upon. This only lasts a few minutes and then all the men follow after the novices. On being asked by what jury he would be tried, the prisoner replied by black-fellows ; but this of course the Court was not empowered to grant. an interpreter. These were particular favorites, and it was no uncommon sight to see a group of excited blacks hacking at a log and dragging out the long, squirming worms ( which they would swallow raw and wriggling. The Katthang word for bull roarer, Goo-nan-duk-yer, means human shit eater. Nature appeared to have safeguarded them In her own Inscrutable fashion against most of the ailments that afflict civilised man but she had not prepared them against the diseases that the white man brought in his train. The stone is about the height and size of a [woman]. Dont interfere with them ! The novices are told that the noise they hear is the voice of Goign, who would come and eat them if he got the chance. Then they would begin on their own account. These performances are generally carried on at night by the light of the row of camp fires-the novices sitting in the shelter, while the men are acting on the other side of the fire. These spirits were supposed to dwell in the bodies of the medicine men. Online help is available anytime from other FamilySearch users. McKenzies CLIFFS A TRAGEDY OF 1838. "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. Each lad approached his mother, or in default, his nearest female relative, and kneeling before her simulated the act of suckling nourishment from her breasts; this it being explained to us later, signifying the putting aside for ever of all childish things. This beating of boomerangs and stamping is repeated till the men get quite close to the back of the goonambang. The affair took place on the flat about 100 yards south of Camerons fence. Before 1788 it covered 90% of the country and comprised about 300 languages. Baime also created Kawal (Ka-wal), to watch over the Wonnarua people. . It stems from the work of a West Maitland schoolteacher in the 1880s in which, he used the word Gringai to describe a group of Aborigines living near Dungog . We would also like to pay respect to Elders both past and present of the Wonnarua nation and extend that respect to all other Aboriginal people. In deference to the very evident wish[es] that I should depart, I rode away. Sanitation was unknown to the tribe, with most unpleasant consequences when a camp had been established at one spot for some length of time. That, so far as I can recollect, concluded that particular ceremony. Having made the necessary arrangements, Captain Mof- fatt, Mr. Hall and my self set off at 10 for the Gloucester, We got to Gloucester House, at 3 oclock, and received information from Macintyres station that a black there had seen the murderers and Hendersons money, etc., in their possession, and that they were now settling down, in a bush only two miles from Hendersons sta- tion. Long Tommys [wife] picked up a fire stick and flattened Flash Tommy out. In 1882, Maitland schoolteacher John Fraser wrote what he thought was an authoritative work on the Aborigines of NSW and used the word Gringai when referring to a group of Aborigines in the Dungog area but made no connection between that group and the Aborigines who lived in or around Sydney. 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