Event | Corroboree | |||||||
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Venue | Corroboree Ground, Lennard Brook, WA | |||||||
First Date | 1835 | |||||||
Dates Estimated | Yes | |||||||
Status | Unknown | |||||||
World Premiere | No | |||||||
Description | Weeip had kin ties with a group centred on the locality where ‘Lennard’s Brook’ emerges from the hills, an area rich in yams and supporting intensive Aboriginal usage. By evening a full-scale reception had been arranged. The guests were offered plenty of kangaroo meat, creating formal reciprocal obligations. We found the natives all encamped near us . . . at night they entertained us with a corrobberry, which was got up on our account . . . The several figures did not differ materially from those which were familiar to us, but the words which accompanied each change contained strong allusions to passing events . . . these ceremonials . . . serve the purpose of historic records. The songs were accompanied by dance, and the participants wore elaborate bodydecoration,
for example, arm-ornaments of “Gnow” (mallee-bird) feathers. |
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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 | |||||||
Event Status | Completed | |||||||
Data Source |
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Event Identifier | 136853 | |||||||
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