Event | Corroboree | |||||||
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Venue | Copenhagen Grounds, Ballarat, VIC | |||||||
First Date | 20 February 1865 | |||||||
Dates Estimated | No | |||||||
Status | Unknown | |||||||
World Premiere | No | |||||||
Description | The aboriginal corroboree and display of fireworks at the Copenhagen grounds on Monday evening drew together a large number of persons, and the novel entertainment proved a decided success. Aboriginal habits in their most primitive style were displayed by about thirty-five natives, from various tribes around Ballarat, including about a dozen lubras, who were nearly naked and daubed over with paints. Between five and six hundred assembled to witness it. Professor Prescott, the lessee of the grounds, purposes on a future evening to allow the natives the use of the grounds for another corroboree | |||||||
Description Source | Article | |||||||
Primary Genre | Other | |||||||
Secondary Genre |
Indigenous
Corroboree Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Created |
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Text Nationality | Australia | |||||||
Production Nationality | Australia | |||||||
Further Information | Resource The Star, 21 February 1865, page 6 - is not currently on Trove but listed as a resource and quoted in full at https://sovereignhillhiddenhistories.com.au/jewellers-posterboard/ | |||||||
Event Status | Completed | |||||||
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Event Identifier | 133296 | |||||||
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