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Corroboree - Aboriginal Campsite & Corroboree Ground

Placename: Aboriginal Campsite & Corroboree Ground
Layer: btest
Link back to source:: https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/135694
Type: Other

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Latitude: -37.827753
Longitude: 144.982377
Start Date: 1839-04-04
End Date
State: VIC

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.

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Source

Victoria and it's Metropolis: Past and Present Vol 1, http://moreland.hosting.libero.com.au/documents/Victoria-Metropolis-Past-Present-Vol-1.pdf, "Alexander Sutherland, Victoria and it's Metropolis: Past and Present Vol 1, McCarron, Bird & Co Printers & Publishers, Collins Street West, Melbourne, Moreland City Libraries, 1888, 174" | A Bend In The Yarra, https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ER2EAwAAQBAJ, "Ian Clark, Toby Heydon, A Bend In The Yarra, Aboriginal Studies Press, Melbourne, 2004, 19-21" | An Indigenous History of the City of Stonnington, http://www.stonnington.vic.gov.au/files/assets/public/history/indigenous-history-full-report.pdf, 2006-06-30, "Laura Kostanski, Ian Clark, An Indigenous History of the City of Stonnington, School of Business, University of Ballarat, Ballarat, 30 June 2006"

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