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Johnny Malone.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Photo of linguists and ethnologists Johnny Malone, 1850-1875.
a8036156h.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Ngarigu words collected by John H Pettit in 'Letters home to England'
a1348013h.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Whether by design or for cultural reasons, Aboriginal languages have a complex system of protocols as a way to protect language, culture or people.
a5491083h.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
These Awabakal men were painted in 1818 by Major James Wallis, the Commandant at Newcastle.
Burra Bee Dee 3 crop brighter.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Mob, Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Reminiscences on Mary Jane Cain and life on Burra Bee Dee Mission by Aunty Maureen Sulter (Gamilaraay, Coonabarabran).
Kangaroo and grass tree, c 1857
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Record of the many different Aboriginal names used to name 'kangaroo', ca. 1857.
campfire yarning circle.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Video of a campfire in a cave on Valla Beach near Nambucca Heads
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Sung by Don Bell, Ngunawal Elder
Lizzie Malone.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Languages
Summary: 
Evening News supplement, 17 November 1900, p 3.
a2109001u.jpg
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).
a2094022h.jpg
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.