Corroboree

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Event Corroboree
Venue Aboriginal Campsite & Corroboree Ground, South Yarra, VIC
First Date 4 April 1839
Dates Estimated Yes
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Next evening the blacks of the district mustered to give an exhibition of a corroboree, and for the last time the streets of Melbourne were lit up to the leaping flame of their weird fires. Also - On 4 April when Lady Jane Franklin, the wife of the Governor of Van Diemen’s Land, visited Melbourne, she requested to see a corroboree, and Robinson asked the Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung to arrange one (Robinson Jnl 4/4/1839). This was staged at the Aboriginal encampment on the southbank of the Yarra River, one mile from the township.
Description Source Article
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Indigenous
Corroboree
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Produced
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Created
Resources
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Further Information An Indigenous History of the City of Stonnington page 68
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Newspaper
Mapping Corroboree
Event Identifier 135694
Dataset AusStage