Event | Corroboree | |||||||
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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 |
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Text Nationality | Australia | |||||||
Production Nationality | Australia | |||||||
Further Information | An Indigenous History of the City of Stonnington page 68 | |||||||
Event Status | Completed | |||||||
Data Source |
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Event Identifier | 135694 | |||||||
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