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At least fourteen were killed and the only survivors were two women and three children. Among those killed was a mountain chief Conibigal, [a] an old man called Balyin, a Dharawal man called Dunell, along with several women and children. [16] [14] Aboriginal descendants claim the figure of 14 is an underestimate, and that many more were ...
Wurugag and Waramurungundi, first man and woman of Kunwinjku legend; Yawkyawk, Aboriginal shape-shifting mermaids who live in waterholes, freshwater springs, and rock pools, cause the weather and are related by blood or through marriage (or depending on the tradition, both) to the rainbow serpent Ngalyod.
Gancanagh – Male fairy that seduces human women; Gandabherunda – Double-headed bird; Gandharva – Male nature spirits, often depicted as part human, part animal; Gargouille – Water dragon; Garkain (Australian Aboriginal) – Flying humanoid who envelops his victims; Garmr – Giant, ravenous hound
Red Hands Cave, Blue Mountains National Park, outside Glenbrook, contains large collection of hand stencils. Stonewoman Aboriginal Area, Inverell area, features Tingha Stonewoman rock formation, a teaching and ceremonial site. [21] Tamarama, Sydney. A large carving of a whale and fish is located beside the path from Bondi Beach to Tamarama.
The Dharug language, now in a period of revitalization, is generally considered one of two dialects, inland and coastal, constituting a single language. [2] [3] The word myall, a pejorative word in Australian dialect denoting any Aboriginal person who kept up a traditional way of life, [4] originally came from the Dharug language term mayal, which denoted any person hailing from another tribe.
Alternative names arose as Aboriginal languages had no written form before European settlement. Thus Aboriginal words and tribal names can have many alternative spellings, as the oral transmission from the Indigenous people may have been heard or recorded differently by various early European sources.
According to Norman Tindale's estimation, the Gamilaraay's tribal domains encompassed some 75,000 km 2 (29,000 sq mi), [6] from around Singleton in the Hunter Valley through to the Warrumbungle Mountains in the west and up through the present-day centres of Quirindi, Gunnedah, Tamworth, Narrabri, Wee Waa, Walgett, Moree, Collarenebri, Lightning Ridge and Mungindi in New South Wales, to ...
In 1826 many Aboriginal people at Lake George protested an incident involving a shepherd and an Aboriginal woman, though the protesters moved away peacefully. [ 8 ] Historical records of Australia record the last " full-blooded " Ngunnawal person, Nellie Hamilton, dying in 1897, however, this is disputed by Indigenous and non-Indigenous ...