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Corroboree - Fawkner Park (Opposite Fawkner Hotel)

Placename: Fawkner Park (Opposite Fawkner Hotel)
Layer: btest
Link back to source:: https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/136141
Type: Other

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Latitude: -37.83774
Longitude: 144.980765
Start Date: 1851-01-01
End Date
State: VIC

Description

The only amusement we had up to 1851 was the natives used to meet once a month on the full moon in Fawkner Park, opposite the Fawkner Hotel. The hotel lies between the Park and Millswyn-street, but there was no hotel, park or streets there then, but all bush. There the blacks held their corroboree, and I have seen the greater portion of the people of Melbourne and Prahran turn out and visit the camp on those occasions.

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Source

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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