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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
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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.
Lizzie Malone.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Languages
Summary: 
Evening News supplement, 17 November 1900, p 3.
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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.
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).
warrawarrwai.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Dharawal language heard upon entry to exhibition
Endeavour journal, July 1770 entry by Joseph Banks
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Record of the interactions of James Cook’s ship with the Guugu Yimidhirr people.
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
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
a587021h.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Languages
Summary: 
The well-known Aboriginal figure Bennelong is named in a letter from First Fleet naval officer David Blackburn.
a928325h.jpg
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.
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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.