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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.
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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.
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
warrawarrwai.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Dharawal language heard upon entry to exhibition
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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.
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