- Title
- Dallong : Possum skin rugs
- Creator
- Cahir, David (Fred)
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/70027
- Identifier
- vital:164
- Identifier
- https://prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/provenance-journal/provenance-2005/dallong-possum-skin-rugs
- Identifier
- ISSN:1832-2522
- Abstract
- In June 1835 John Batman, popularly acknowledged as the founder of Melbourne, recorded one of the first times that possum skin cloaks were traded by the Aboriginal people of Victoria with the European arrivals. Before he held the formal treaty meeting with the Woiwurrung clan heads near present-day Melbourne to purchase a tract of their country, Batman had distributed gifts including blankets, beads and knives. After the meeting he wrote in his journal: 'the chiefs, to manifest their friendly feeling towards me, insisted upon my receiving from them two native cloaks and several baskets made by the women, and also some of the implements of defence'.2 For the remainder of the nineteenth century these indigenous cloaks or rugs were clearly sought after by the white settlers.; C1
- Publisher
- Melbourne Public Records Office of Victoria
- Relation
- Provenance Vol. 4, no. 5 (2005), p. 1-14
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- Copyright Public Records Office of Victoria This article can be accessed online by web link
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
- Subject
- 2103 Historical Studies; John Batman; Aboriginal Australians; Trade
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