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Event

Corroboree

Venue

Adelaide Parklands, Adelaide, SA

First Date

April 1846

Last Date

April 1846

Dates Estimated

Yes

Status

Unknown

World Premiere

Description

'Nightly' events.
Parsons notes the events were for private purposes.

Description Source

Other

Primary Genre

Other

Secondary Genre

Indigenous
Corroboree
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Created

Resources

Local News of the Week, outh Australian Gazette and Colonial Register (Adelaide, SA, National Library of Australia, 11 April 1846, 2

THE BLACKS.—We would really entreat the
attention of the police to the proceedings of the
natives on the Park Land, in North Adelaide.
Not only is the destruction of the trees proceeding
by wholesale, but the inhabitants are nightly
disturbed by the horrible howlirg in their beastly
corrobories. Morning and evening both sides of
the river are crowded with the savages, armed,
too, with spears, and accompanied with troops of
half-starve

Article: Local News of the Week, outh Australian Gazette and Colonial Register (Adelaide, SA, National Library of Australia, 11 April 1846, 2
Progress of Native Civilization, South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register (Adelaide, S, National Library of Australia, 25 April 1846, 2

Article: Progress of Native Civilization, South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register (Adelaide, S, National Library of Australia, 25 April 1846, 2
Manuscript: Papers relating to the Thomas family , The State Library of South Australia, 1935
Thesis: Michael Parsons, Southern Cross University, Encounters in Touriculture: Indigenous Cultural Tourism in Contested Domains, 1997

Further Information

Location in North Adelaide Parklands, also draws from Extracts from the Diary of Miss Mary Thomas V1058/26A Mortlock Library type script 21 March 1846.

Event Status

Completed

Data Source

Source	Description
Thesis

Event Identifier

151187

Dataset

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