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A study of Aboriginal associations with Victorian caves finds that there is a rich cultural heritage associated with caves. This association has been found to be rich and varied in which caves and sink holes featured prominently in the lives of Aboriginal people - they were often the abodes of malevolent creatures and spirits and some were associated with important ancestral heroes, traditional harming practices, and some were important in the after death movement of souls to their resting places. Aboriginal names for caves, where known, are discussed.
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The Papers of George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector, Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate, Volume Four: Annual and Occasional Reports, 1841-49 is a collection of Official Reports from the Chief Protector. CONTENTS Part One: Volume 59 Correspondence and Other Papers, Both Official and Private, Port Phillip Protectorate: Official Reports - 1841, 1845; A. Expedition to Western Interior, 1841; B. Journey of 1,100 miles to the tribes of the North West and Western Interior, 1845; Part Two: Volume 60, Correspondence and Other Papers, Both Official and Private, Port Phillip Protectorate: Official Reports - 1846, 1847; A. Report of an expedition to the Aboriginal tries of the interior over more than ten thousand miles of country by George Augustus Robinson, March - August 1846; B. Report of a visit to the Goulburn, Loddon and Mount Rouse Aboriginal Stations by George Augustus Robinson, 1847; Part Three: Volume 61, Correspondence and Other Papers, Both Official and Private, Port Phillip Protectorate: Annual Reports of the Chief Protector, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849; Bibliography. [From back cover]
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The Journals of George Augustus Robinson, the Chief Protector in the Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate from 1839 until early 1950 are an unparalleled source of information about the Aboriginal peoples of south-eastern Australia and early colonial society. This is the sixth and final volume in the series, covering the period from 1849 until 1852. During this time the Aboriginal Protectorate was abolished; gold was discovered in country Victoria, and Robinson decided to return to England. The journal contains his on-board diary of his return voyage on the Medway. [From back cover]
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When Mullawallah (also known as King Billy, Frank or William Wilson) died of exposure/exhaustion on 23 September 1896, many of the Ballarat community took a somewhat ghoulish interest in viewing the corpse at the Ballarat and District Hospital morgue. Mullawallah was laid in a black and gold open coffin, decorated with golden representations of Aboriginal weapons. The hospital gardener made a special boomerang-shaped wreath of wattle blossom which was placed on his chest. A few days later, on 26 September, hundreds of residents, including local Members of Parliament, assembled for the beginning of the funeral procession at the hospital. They wished to be part of what they believed was the historic occasion of the passing of the 'last of the Ballarat tribe'. Key local churches and institutions had jostled to organise this burial. Ultimately, it was the Anglican Archedeacon who presided over the service and the Methodists who donated the grave plot.
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The Papers of George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector, Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate, Volume Three: Miscellanea is a collection of Aboriginal vocabularies, sketches, and other oddments. CONTENTS Part One: Volume 62, Miscellanea; A. Extracts from the Report of the Select Committee on Aborigines, House of Commons, London, 1837; B. Copies of Correspondence relating to the Port Phillip Protectorate; C. Extracts from the Sydney Gazzette relating to the Aborigines, August - September 1838; Part Two: Volume 63, Miscellanea; A. Sketchbook containing material relating to the Port Phillip Protectorate; B. Aboriginal vocabularies, sketches, and oddments; Bibliography. [From back cover]
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George Augustus Robinson arrived in Melbourne in late February 1839 to take up his position as Chief Protector in the Aboriginal Protectorate in the Port Phillip District of New South Wales. In late 1849, the government decided to abolish the Protectorate Department, and accordingly in March 1850 the department ceased to exist. Based in Melbourne, Robinson generally referred to his administrative quarters as 'Chief Protector's Office'. During the life of the Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate, at least six locations served as his central headquarters: a hut on the Police Magistrate's paddock in what is now Jolimont (1839); the former Government Mission Station at what is now the Royal Botanic Gardens (1839); the jury room of the old Supreme Court building (1843); a change of offices, possibly in the same building (1847); rooms rented from William Willoughby (1848); rooms rented from JB Were in Collins Street (1848); rooms rented from William Willoughby in Queen Street (1849). During Robinson's chief protectorship, at least eleven men served as his personal clerk. Their terms of employment ranged from one week to 27 months. They were as follows: William Lansdown (1839-40); Godwin (1840); Thomas Martin (1840-41); McGill (1841); Thomas Martic (1841-42); Frederick William Dallimore (1842); CA Wallinger (1842-43); H. McClure (1843-44); Henry Boorn Foot (1844-47); Charles Forrest (1847-48); Henry Lingham (1848-50). This volume publishes the Office Journal of the Chief Protector's Office, and with few exceptions, the entries were made by Robinson's personal clerks. Entries by all clerks, bar McGill and Dallimore, have survived, and are here published. Dr Ian D. Clark, was born and raised in Ararat in western Victoria, and has a doctorate in Aboriginal historical geography from Monash University. He has been the History Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies; the Manager of the Brambuk Living Cultural Centre; and Senior Researcher in the Koorie Tourism Unit in the former Victorian Tourism Commission. [From back cover]
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The Papers of George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector, Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate, Volume Two: Aboriginal Vocabularies of South Eas Australia, 1839 - 1852 is a collection of Robinson's field notes and Aboriginal vocabularies collected from 1839 until 1852. According to Professor Barry J. Blake (La Trobe University): Robinson's collection of Aboriginal vocabularies from south-eastern Australia is perhaps the largest source of information on the languages of the area that we have, certainly it is the most varied. It covers practically every area of Victoria as well as some adjacent areas of South Australia and New South Wales. Indigenous people seeking to reclaim their languages and linguists working on these languages will now have for the first time easy access to the complete collection faithfully transcribed by Ian Clark. Robinson's corpus is extremely valuable and its publication represents a major contribution to the reclamation of the linguistic heritage of Australia. [From back cover]
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Australia's folklore has developed over two and a half centries of cultural diversity. It is influenced by stories, songs, traditions, rituals, and ideologies from every corner of the globe. Despite the attempted genocide of Australian Indigenous peoples and their languages and cultures, certain aspects of their mythology and folklore have been powerful enough, interesting enough, or pertinent enough to have survived and been translated, adapted or appropriated holus-bolus into the wider mainstream Australian mythology.