The aboriginal corroboree and display of fireworks at the Copenhagen grounds on Monday evening drew together a large number of persons, and the novel entertainment proved a decided success. Aboriginal habits in their most primitive style were displayed by about thirty-five natives, from various tribes around Ballarat, including about a dozen lubras, who were nearly naked and daubed over with paints. Between five and six hundred assembled to witness it. Professor Prescott, the lessee of the grounds, purposes on a future evening to allow the natives the use of the grounds for another corroboree
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Copenhagen Grounds, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/112884867, 1865-02-20, "Copenhagen Grounds, The Star, 20 February 1865, 3" | Aboriginal Corroboree, 1865-02-21, "Aboriginal Corroboree, The Star, 21 February 1865, 6"
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Corroboree|Indigenous|Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Created