'Living Language: Country, Culture, Community' exhibition
A State Library of NSW exhibition which celebrates the resilience of NSW Aboriginal languages.
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Living Language has been guided by a reference group of Elders, leaders and language custodians representing nine communities from across NSW and the ACT.
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This exhibition explores the topics of first contact, punishment for using language, language loss, and the Stolen Generations, and features the names and images of people who are now deceased. 
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'Australian comparative vocabulary' collected by Edward Micklethwaite Curr. 
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Each word for ‘kangaroo’ in more than 180 Australian languages was extracted from the original hand-written version of Curr’s compendium of Aboriginal languages. 
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Uncle Lloyd Walker welcomes people to Coastal Sydney and to the 'Living Language' exhibition.
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Dr Shayne Williams, Senior Knowledge Holder (Gweagal Clan of the Dharawal Nation) Kurnell, June 2019.
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Dharawal language heard upon entry to exhibition
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Sydney CBD (Gadigal country) from Clark Island; Gamay (Botany Bay).
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Raymond Ingrey (Dharawal, La Perouse) talks about teaching Dharawal in his community.
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This painting represents the view east from the Library, towards Car-rang-gel or Garangal (North Head) and Ta-ral-be or Daralbi (South Head).
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Map of Port Jackson and the town of Sydney, ca. 1857.
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This early map of Sydney demonstrates Aboriginal custodianship through the original names for some of the local landmarks. 
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List of Aboriginal names and words recorded from the Cammeray community between 1884 and 1907. 
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The well-known Aboriginal figure Bennelong is named in a letter from First Fleet naval officer David Blackburn. 
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Evening News supplement, 17 November 1900, p 3.
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Photo of linguists and ethnologists Johnny Malone, 1850-1875. 
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This map shows that Dharawal people have been living in and around Gamay (Botany Bay) for tens of thousands of years. 
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Samples of sentences and stories in the Sydney language, provided by Johnny and Lizzie to anthropologists. 
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Early linguists and ethnologists sought out John (Johnny) Malone (c 1820–1880) and his wife Lizzie (c 1830–1901), later Golden, as language and cultural knowledge holders. 
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Bungaree, a Kuringgai man from what is now known as the Broken Bay area of New South Wales, is thought to have shared some of his people’s vocabulary with William Dawes.
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This notebook shows recordings of Sydney language, in the neighbourhood of Sydney, 1788-1791.
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This manuscript includes words and short phrases recorded from a young woman named Patyegarang, who helped him to understand her people’s language. 
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This record of the first Russian expedition to the Antarctic includes a lithographic print of the view from Kiarabilli (Kirribilli) on the north shore of Warran (Sydney Cove). It shows Tar-ra (Dawes Point) on the southern shore at the far right. 
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Coastal Sydney - an account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty, 1773.
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Record of the interactions of James Cook’s ship with the Guugu Yimidhirr people.
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Record of the many different Aboriginal names used to name 'kangaroo', ca. 1857. 
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Coastal Sydney: Journal kept on board the Sirius during a voyage to New South Wales, 1787-91.
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On 28 April 1770 two Gweagal men stood their ground to defend their Country when Lieutenant James Cook and an armed party of marines landed on shore at Gamay (Botany Bay). 
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Michael Jarrett (Gumbaynggirr, Nambucca Heads) does a traditional welcome
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Select specimens from nature … by Thomas Skottowe, drawings by TR Browne, 1813
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These Awabakal men were painted in 1818 by Major James Wallis, the Commandant at Newcastle. 
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Beerabahn (Biraban) was born into a traditional Awabakal way of life at Bahtahbah (Belmont, New South Wales). 
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Reverend Threlkeld was determined to share the knowledge he had gained in his time living with the Awabakal people. 
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Some of the Awabakal language is preserved Horatio Hale’s notebook. Lent by Western Libraries, Western University, London, Canada
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The Awabakal leader Beerabahn (Biraban) taught Threlkeld to speak his language. Threlkeld used this knowledge to write and publish several religious works and vocabularies.
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The Aboriginal Children’s Home at Singleton — on the Hunter River in Wonnaruah country, inland from Lake Macquarie — was established by the Aborigines Inland Mission in 1910 and abandoned in 1920. 
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The people to the north of Awabakal country speak Warrimay, a Gathang dialect. 
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Bundjalung people are seen in these photographs with the objects they used in their daily lives. 
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Bundjalung Elder Billy Buchan was employed as a stockman by the Hewitt family at Newton Boyd Station from the 1850s. 
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Video of a campfire in a cave on Valla Beach near Nambucca Heads
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Michael Jarrett (Gumbaynggirr) shares his knowledge about Dhanggati, Ngambaa, Ngaku and Gumbaynggirr countries
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Michael Jarrett (Gumbaynggirr) tells the story of Birrugan (Southern Cross) in a cave on Valla Beach near Nambucca Heads
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Michael Jarrett (Gumbaynggirr) sings the Wuuban (Bloodwood) tree song around a campfire in a cave on Valla Beach near Nambucca Heads
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Dave Widders (Anaiwan, New England Range) filmed at Inglebah Reserve, May 2019
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Anaiwan country
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This station was occupied in 1835 and is situated on one of the tributaries of the Macleay river 
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Callum Clayton-Dixon (Ambēyang, Armidale) talks about teaching Anaiwan language using the Accelerated Second Language Acquisition technique
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Ngarigu words collected by John H Pettit in 'Letters home to England'
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European explorer John Lhotsky wrote in his journal that he had ‘notated a song which he heard at a corroboree’ although his musical score bears little similarity with Aboriginal musical traditions.
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in ‘Sketches in Australia and the South Seas’, 1842–52
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Sung by Don Bell, Ngunawal Elder
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Auntie Maureen Sulter (Gamilaraay, Coonabarabran) in Warrumbungle National Park
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He began to study Aboriginal languages and, while on a preaching tour of the Liverpool Plains, took a special interest in Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi)
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Gamilaraay language scripture lessons were published by Reverend William Ridley as Gurre Kamilaroi, or Kamilaroi Sayings in 1855
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Reminiscences on Mary Jane Cain and life on Burra Bee Dee Mission by Aunty Maureen Sulter (Gamilaraay, Coonabarabran). 
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In the 1920s, Mary Jane wrote a local history documenting her early life in the Coonabarabran region. Her reminiscences include 73 Gamilaraay placenames and their meanings in English.
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This drawing depicts a campfire corroboree of Wiradjuri people, observed by two Europeans who are sitting in the foreground. 
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This manuscript of the Wiradjuri language is as comprehensive as a modern dictionary. 
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As a child, John Mitchell mixed with the Wiradjuri people of the Murray River area and acquired a knowledge of their language. 
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in ‘Papers of John Francis Huon Mitchell’, 1903–23
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Over the years, the mission was home to Aboriginal people from many different language and cultural backgrounds. 
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in 'Comparative vocabularies of three native languages', 1955
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told by Rhonda Ashby (Gamilaraay/Yuwaalaraay), Lightning Ridge
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Aunty Diane McNaboe shares stories of her Country
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Aunty Diane McNaboe shares stories and a song about her Country
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Nathan Leslie (Gamilaraay, Wollongong) shares his story about teaching children Gamilaraay language at Orange Grove Public School, Sydney
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Whether by design or for cultural reasons, Aboriginal languages have a complex system of protocols as a way to protect language, culture or people. 
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Reminiscences by Aunty Diane McNaboe (Wiradjuri, Dubbo), Aunty Maureen Sulter (Gamilaraay, Coonabarabran) and Aunty Patsy Cohen (Anaiwan, Armidale).
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in ‘Rules & regulations for the management of the Aborigines, or, Black Native Institution of New South Wales, established at Parramatta, on the 18th of January, 1815’
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