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Event

Corroboree

Venue

Mt Barker, Mt Barker, SA

First Date

12 June 1886

Dates Estimated

Status

Unknown

World Premiere

Description

Described in the Mt Barker Courier 'Some Salvation Army natives held a corroborree at Mount Barker last. Saturday night. In their wild state they would not have charged for admission.'

Description Source

Article

Primary Genre

Other

Secondary Genre

Indigenous
Corroboree
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Created

Resources

Our Own District, The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser, National Library of Australia, 18 June 1886, 3

Some Salvation Army natives held a corroborree
at Mount Barker last. Saturday night. In their
wild state they would not have charged for
admission.

Article: Our Own District, The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser, National Library of Australia, 18 June 1886, 3
Thesis: Michael Parsons, Southern Cross University, Encounters in Touriculture: Indigenous Cultural Tourism in Contested Domains, 1997

Further Information

Parsons suggests the performers were a 'group from Milang'

Event Status

Completed

Data Source

Source	Description
Thesis

Event Identifier

151286

Dataset

AusStage