dies and stand motionless, spear poised on woomerah, ready to launch the fatal dart. I set out, accompanied by Messrs. Donelan, Stacy and Jenkin to Lawlers, and found Delaney very weak from loss of blood, having been speared in both arms completely through one the spear having touched his side. James Miller, the author of Koori: A Will to Win, writes an ancestor was from Eccleston, and regards himself as Wonnarua. The number of aborigines in the District of Dungogfrom Clarence Town to Underbank is sixty-three ; viz., forty-six men and boys, fourteen women, and three children. Stings never seemed to trouble them beyond a shake of their woolly head and a squeak. On 7th August [1830], Mr. Field, the constable, returned and informed me that he had succeeded in coming up with the tribe of blacks who had speared Delaney and killed the sheep. The Blacks of Dungog, Port Stephens and Gresford. One author [anonymous] used a crossed d to denote a td sound. Another favorite food was the cobra found in decaying logs on the banks of the tidal watercourses. Robert S Fuller et al, The Astronomy of the Kamilaroi People and their Neighbours, 12. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baiame&oldid=1103216289, This page was last edited on 8 August 2022, at 21:04. Open Microsoft Word, click then insert menu and then choose SmartArt graphics. It was also here at the goonambang that the boys experienced what was to be their harshest physical ordeal of the ceremony. The blacks had lately been very troublesome and bold. The stripping operation was carried out with an exact judgment, lines being cut cross- wise with a tomahawk around and across the tree so that the section removed would be of the required size and shape. If the ground is wet and cold, pieces of bark are spread upon it for the women to lie upon. THE Wonnarua language is more nearly related . it appears that from 14 to 20 blacks had come with a decided intention of killing some of the sheep if they could not get flour. Nor would they return to the original spot for months. A dreamtime story from the Wonnarua explains how the hills and rivers in the Hunter Valley were created by a spirit called Baiame. The same location is given for both these poisonings, Upper Gangat. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Fri 9 Jul 1943 Page 4 THE DUNGOG CEREMONIES. McKenzies CLIFFS A TRAGEDY OF 1838. The native name for the Williams was Durabang; the Paterson River, Yimmang. It is possible that this was the party of twenty six soldiers under Captain Reynolds mentioned by Gordon Bennett and probably one of the grim expeditions of extermination mentioned but not described by him. Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser (NSW : 1894 - 1954) Fri 6 Sep 1940 Page 5 MASSACRE OF BLACKS. The Australian Museum strives to provide First Nation communities with information in an accessible form, about the cultural objects These tasty morsels were shaped like tiny puddings, and when ripe would be eaten raw. His photo is still hanging in the School of Arts. This smaller section was held in place by a binding of fibre and grass-tree gum. The blacks were often sent out to get bark, as they were excellent at the job. This was the Gringai tribe, a sub-branch of numerous native people that once inhabited the lower portions of the Hunter and Karuah river valleys. They were distributed over the district in local groups known as Nuria and were located at distances about eight miles apart in what the histo- rians of those days termed villages. Shortly there was. The ceremonial break from their mothers signified the first step towards manhood, it was the beginning of an event that would make them spiritually as well as physically different from women. Change the target language to find translations. Figure 11: The various tree-markings described. To give th e canoe rigidity so that It could bear Its passengers safely, stretchers were ingeniously fitted at intervals along its length somewhat after the manner one sees In an ordinary clinker-built boat. Fatal was the effect. We would like to acknowledge the Wonnarua people who are the traditional custodians of this land. In regard to elopements, if a man and woman, Figure 7: Map of The Hunter Valley Kooris - reproduced from James Millers A Will to Win. Nonprofit and free. The body, nicely tied up in bark, was carried to it by friends of the deceased. Contact Us The blacks were always fearful of a raid by the Myall River natives, who were reputed to be very warlike and aggressive. A level patch of ground in a convenient part of the camp is cleared and made smooth for dancing on. The main shaft was the dried stem of the gigantic lily (pooloongearn), and into this was fitted a secondary portion, a part of the dried flower stem of the grass tree (pummirri). Fanny, on seeing it, became greatly agitated and ordered me to restore it to its hiding place at once. The bushes which had previously been laid round the fire are now thrown upon it. ), http://www.ausanthrop.net/resources/ausanthrop_db/detail.php?id_search=584, "A salvage grammar and wordlist of the language from the Hunter River and Lake Macquarie", http://www.wonnarua.org.au/images/HRLM%20part%201.pdf, http://www.newcastle.edu.au/Resources/Divisions/Academic/Library/Cultural%20Collections/pdf/miller1886.pdf, http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/wonnarua.htm, "Aboriginal associations with the park area", http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/NationalParks/parkHeritage.aspx?id=N0002, http://www.wonnarua.org.au/images/WNAC%20Strategic%20Plan.pdf, http://www.visitdungog.com.au/areahistory.php, https://sites.google.com/site/amcatmuseum/maitland-history, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/people_places/caergwrle/index.html, http://www.tocal.com/homestead/history/overview.htm, Wonnarua Nation Aboriginal Corporation website, Wonnarua Nation Aboriginal Corporation Strategic Plan 20092012, http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/page/default.asp?site=2&page=TIN_Tribal&level=3&code=4&item=E5, "Selected bibliography of material on the Wonnarua / Wanaruah language and people held in the AIATSIS Library", http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/library/docs/langbibs/Wonnarua_May08.pdf, http://www.wonnarua.org.au/images/about%20the%20wonnarua%202.pdf, List of Indigenous Australian group names, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wonnarua&oldid=494492741. The Dutton Family tree remains a mystery with the conclusion of 1923's first season. . The removal of Cabeen Paddy [recently mentioned] and Cocky from this quarter has had the desired effect. By scratches on the bark and other signs not comprehensible to a white person, they would select the forest giant in which the little animal had made his home. Dr. McKinlay records that they believed in supernatural beings whom they called Maamba. In the early days of the settlement they had not come into very close contact with civilisation and he speaks of them as refusing to eat bread when it was offered to them. A. Co. had established an out cattle station at Upper Ganghut a heifer run, in charge of [which were a few of] their assigned servants. But they seldom did this In the presence of the women. They saw some of it. It is on record of authentic nature that incredible crudities were practised upon the poor blacks by some of these hardened wretches. There is none left now of the populous tribe that once inhabited the district, and the sole surviving relic, poor, unfortunate Brandy passed to the care of the great spirit, Coen, more than fifteen years ago. The other piece would be thinner, and rounded In a blunt point. There were also other hieroglyphics. They lived for the most part, he says, on opossums, kangaroos, wallabies, birds and fish. On account of the novices hair being singed short, and the white paint on their bodies, the mothers are sometimes unable to recognise their own sons. removed the kidney fat without the painful operation above described. The spirit of Kawal is embodied in the wedge tailed eagle, found throughout the Hunter Valley. The illustration above, Broken Bay [Hawkesbury RIver]Jemmy. [8], Media related to Hunter Valley at Wikimedia Commons. These men, armed with their boomerangs and nulla-nullas, then start towards the kackaroo, some of them taking up their position on one side of the ring, and some on the other, but the majority of them stand near the front of it-that is, on the side from which the path emerges. Captain Moffatt and I agreed to set off at 2 to-morrow, that nothing may be left undone on this lamentable occasion. During winter would hunt kangaroos, emus, possums and wombats, fish and other animals. When I approached an old man was digging the grave, which was a most laborious task, the ground being very hard, and the only tools used for the purpose a tomahawk. Two young Blacks who made a nuisance of themselves by continually begging for food at a certain accommodation house on Fosterton Road, were easily disposed of a little poison was put in their food. The tribe had no special leader or chief during my memory of them, the older. Years afterwards their unburied skeletons could be seen. Gordon Bennett (reprinted 1964) p8. A troop of painted savages would bound into the magic circle, and prancing about and clash, ing thelir spears, would announce in hoarse tones that they could not find the poomblts, (the boys who were being initiated). Summarize this article for a 10 years old, The Wonnarua people, otherwise written Wanarruwa, are a group of Aboriginal Australian people united by strong ties of kinship, and who survived in family groups or clans scattered along the inland area of what is now known as the Upper Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia. stream Just as the t in tinko was turned into d in dingo so the t in Tugag became d, and the nasality of the final g being dropped the word became Dungag and Dungog. It was amazing the quantity of food the toddlers could consume, and It was astonishing that it did them no harm. The soldiers came by boat via Newcastle and landing at Clarence Town marched in search of the tribe of blacks. The men tap the ends of their boomerangs together as they walk, and the women wave their arms. On the Main Creek, somewhere in the region of Mr. Gams timber mill, there is a stone standing on end, bending down hill. [2] However, it has also been claimed that the language of the Wonnarua people is more closely linked to the Darkinjung language. The Kweealbang Camp.-A short digression will now be made for the purpose of describing how the women are released from their prostrate position, and their subsequent proceedings. From the time the novices left the kweealbang until now they have been compelled to carry pieces of burning bark everywhere they went, but they are now released from carrying the firebrands any more. ^ Vz"*+J )dEHgBH]n]L359YbF1yV8(eatI'o "We don't have a connection to this homestead or to this area at all," he said. After some slight alteration he again, got into it. The novices are conducted along the pathway to the goonambang, and are placed sitting down on a couch of small bushes and, Figure 10: Bull-roarers. Old Mr. Collier, the school teacher, asked the blacks to permit the school boys to see the ceremony. Kiripit (now Rawdon Vale) 26 miles west of Glouces- ter, was then a sheep station, managed by Robert Mackenzie, afterwards Sir Robert. The literature makes no reference to grass seeds having been ground, although Themeda australis was widespread (Bigge Evidence BT Box 5:2028-30, 2033) and it. Tho leader, scanning the. The keerang then march right through the line of men and boys, some going through at one place and some at another, the line opening to let them pass. The novices are then brought out and placed standing in a row between the camp and the fires, with their eyes cast down. Here the mothers and sisters of the novices assemble every day for the purpose of singing and dancing, and on these occasions the mothers carry the yamsticks, ornamented with bunches of leaves tied on their ends, already referred to. Mr. McKenzie, a son-in-law of Mr. John Rawden was the first manager and no doubt he had many difficulties to contend with, one of his chief troubles being caused by his employees, almost all of whom were assigned servants (convicts), many being hardened criminals. On the 30th last I discov- ered in the bush opposite iny residence, three head of Mr Myles cattle speared. The Earliest Inhabitants - Aboriginal Tribes of the District. The Blacks of Dungog, Port Stephens and Gresford. He did not own the land, the land owned him. The meat was cooked in the most primitive fashion. They [the Gringai] are afraid of Coen, an evil spirit of the woods, which they say crammer (steals) them when they are nangry (asleep). I remember one old black discoursing on the merits of the nullah a s against the wattle in a fight. This mighty unknown was not in any way associated with such natural phenomena as thunder or light- ning, nor did he seem to have any particular dwelling place. The mothers of the boys are on the outside, or farthest from the fire, which is composed of pieces of wood and bark, slowly burning within the circle of green bushes which are laid around it. A few sheets of bark, leaning on a pole against a tree, served him as shelter through days of sunshine or nights of storm and rain. water with eager eyes, would watch until the shoal came within striking distance. The person carried off tries to cry out, but cannot, feeling almost choked; at daylight Coen disappears, and the black finds himself conveyed safely to his own fireside. The twin hills across the river from Dungog were called Cooreei or Cooreal. Tra ditional hunting grounds were depleted, and sacred sites were destroyed. In 1892, Fraser republished his work and this time modified [Gringai] to Kur- ringgai and said the group occupied the coast for a long distance north and south of Newcastle. The web service Alexandria is granted from Memodata for the Ebay search. After these singular appetisers, the chief would throw the carcase on the fire and leave the game to cook. (VMR, VHR). A cord, made of possum hair, was passed around his body a couple of times, the ends being held by the woman who knelt on the ground, leaning over the little canoe of water. In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Baiame (or Biame, Baayami, Baayama or Byamee) was the creator god and sky father[1] in the Dreaming of several Aboriginal Australian peoples of south-eastern Australia, such as the Wonnarua, Kamilaroi, Guringay, Eora, Darkinjung, and Wiradjuri peoples. The whites, themselves, being oppressed with scarcity and dearth of provisions, were forced to withdraw that countenance and support they had formerly afforded to the blacks, and that was indeed the cause of all the mischief that occurred some little time since. The boys of each tribe sit on the side of the ring nearest the country they have come from. There I. saw a large fire burning in the centre of a cleared oval space. Birds and fish, however, were cooked by being plastered with mud and placed amid hot coals or in a hole packed with heated stones. Then he came forward to the fire no one speaking to him, nor apparently looking at him. Almost every evening one of the tribes present gets up a corroboree for the amusement of the others. Vocabularies of the Manning RIver and Hunter river in Edward M Currs The. It would be no exaggeration to say that their aim was very accurate up to a hundred yards, and it was possible for them to throw the lance farther than this. Gordon Bennett (reprinted 1964) p4, Intermarriage of families was strictly forbidden, and incest was a crime pun- ishable with death. This means, that the big question remains unanswered. It was a very simple process for the tribe to kill all they needed. Derby [carried] the letter. Ganghat became anathema to the tribe a valley of death. They would often knock the feathered forager from a tree trunk with a purrahmlrre (the throwing-stick), or a stone, laughing uproariously at the feat. Thus their visitor was put at his ease, and in a most tactful manner. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 26: 320-340. Each lad approached his mother, or in default, his nearest female relative, and kneeling before her simulated the act of suckling nourishment from her breasts; this it being explained to us later, signifying the putting aside for ever of all childish things. Some time ago I despatched two of the Mounted Police to put in force a warrant issued by Mr G. Rowley, J.P, against three black fellows who assaulted and beat a man in charge of sheep who endeavoured to protect his masters property ; but these sable thieves being apprised of the troopers approach collected to the number of thirty or forty, and having amongst them at least a dozen muskets and plenty of ammunition, which the settlers most improperly [supplied them], they resisted and the soldiers were fain to retreat, which they did with much difficulty, not until several shots were exchanged, the troopers cartridge box wrenched from his person, and his arm wounded with a tomahawk. In the meantime the novices, who are now called keeparra, have been taken a short distance from the main camp, where quarters are prepared for them, and their guardians remain with them. Dungog Chronicle and Gloucester Advertiser - Peep Into the Past March 24, 1932. . Today 8.3% or 2,033 people in Singleton identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander in the 2021 Census. %PDF-1.3 What the guardian said, the boombits (initiates) believed. Family trees often span a few generations or even several generations. Learn how First Nation communities and artists are using ghost net sculptures as a way to tell traditional stories. Early in the thirties the A.A. Coy. The keerango, and other men who remained at the womens camp have been standing by as spectators, directing the proceedings all the time - the principal headmen being among them. One of the men would then sound a bull-roarer just after dark in the vicinity of the camp, and next morning everyone would pack up and proceed by easy stages towards the appointed tryst, dances and songs being indulged in at night at each of the stages along their route. Descendants of the Wonnarua are encouraged to give their family details to build the tree. If he wants to micturate, the guardian leads him out to the fire, and he micturates in the ashes. The juvenile males of this (the Dungog) tribe were, from the age of about twelve to eighteen, allowed to accompany their parents and friends in hunting excursions, and assisted in the incidental fagging necessary about the camps. In those days the flying-foxes were plentiful around Port Stephens there being a densely populated harborage on Cabbage Tree. On arriving at the circle they walked once round it, and then entered it through the opening in its wall, the women at the same time going out of it by stepping over the embankment at the other end, where they remained as spectators. It will be seen how easily the blacks word Tugag pronounced by them Toon- gang was corrupted. As soon as the mothers are covered over, they are directed to continue making a low humming or buzzing sound, in order that they may not hear the guardians taking away the novices. The patient was seated or placed in a reclining position on the ground. Find out more, an offensive content(racist, pornographic, injurious, etc. Dont interfere with them ! The novices are told that the noise they hear is the voice of Goign, who would come and eat them if he got the chance. If it chanced the long white worms commonly found in bush animals, these would be swallowed with with rare gusto as the greatest delicacy of all. Fishing lines were cleverly made from the inner bark of young kurrajong trees, the finished article being of extraordinary strength and capable of landing the heaviest of edible fish. It required but little effort to keep the communal larder filled to repletion. Knocks and bumps, cuts and scratches, sustained in the ordinary course of daily life, troubled them not one whit. The map was determined by overlaying an old parish map onto a topographic map. [There was] a fight between the Wallamba tribe and a portion of the Kabook (Gloucester, Barrington, Rawdon Vale tribes). All along, one side of this top rail, reaching from it to the ground, bark and bushes are. It was no uncommon thing for some wandering visitor from another tribe to come along at certain intervals to teach our blacks another song, probably one of his own composition. We help make that possible with the FamilySearch Family Tree, the world's largest online family treehome to information about more than 1.2 billion ancestors. It is today difficult to ascertain what actually happened at the climax of the ceremony, but the spiritual experience was to be impregnated in the memories of these young boys until their final return to the spirit world. A dreamtime story from the Wonnarua explains how the hills and rivers in the Hunter Valley were created by a spirit called Baiame. Before Baime there was nothing, everything was sleeping. This seemed to conclude one de- finite part of the ceremonies, for the women were not permitted to witness what followed. All of them then join hands, each man having hold of the hand of the man or boy on his right and oni his left, having their faces toward the fire in the centre, and form a complete circle round the women. [T]here was the fear of darkness, general among all members of the tribe. The shout then set up by all was deafening. Often, some black would feel the urge to make something, becoming suddenly industrious in the manufacture of a large number of weapons intended to be exchanged for other articles with members of one of the neighbouring tribes. As it reached a terrific climax it ceased suddenly, to be succeeded by great shouting and yelling from the men. . The Reverend gentleman was assisted by another aborigine, who could understand English, but who being of no religion at all, could not be sworn as. Without more ado the corpse was lowered into the grave, which was filled and carefully levelled. The sports of the children were the daily labors of their parents in miniature. After the owner had spent some time in exhibiting his prize, a comrade would calmly approach him and secure possession of it to go through the same performance. Day broke and the sleeping blacks arose. The women then step out of the ring, and stand a few yards from it, where they remain till the conclusion of the performance. They would take a fish, thrust a finger through the soft flesh just beneath a side fin, and through that small orifice withdraw all the entrails. Whirling the stick with amazing speed its hardened point would emerge from the pith, spilling a fiery dust that dropped on a little heap of soft, fine bark placed to catch it. Members are despatched to summon tribes from far and near, and on their return full preparations are made for the celebration, a place being selected and a day appointed. 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