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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Sung by Don Bell, Ngunawal Elder
Botany
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
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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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
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.
Beerabahn or MacGill, Chief of Bartabah or Lake Macquarie
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Beerabahn (Biraban) was born into a traditional Awabakal way of life at Bahtahbah (Belmont, New South Wales).
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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Mob, Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
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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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Coastal Sydney: Journal kept on board the Sirius during a voyage to New South Wales, 1787-91.
Nambucca River creation story.jpg
2 pages
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Michael Jarrett (Gumbaynggirr) shares his knowledge about Dhanggati, Ngambaa, Ngaku and Gumbaynggirr countries
warrawarrwai.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Dharawal language heard upon entry to exhibition
Johnny Malone.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Photo of linguists and ethnologists Johnny Malone, 1850-1875.
Sketches in Australia and the South Seas, 1842-1852 / Browne
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
in ‘Sketches in Australia and the South Seas’, 1842–52
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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Reverend Threlkeld was determined to share the knowledge he had gained in his time living with the Awabakal people.
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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
This drawing depicts a campfire corroboree of Wiradjuri people, observed by two Europeans who are sitting in the foreground.