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A corroboree is a generic word for a meeting of Australian Aboriginal peoples. It may be a sacred ceremony , a festive celebration, or of a warlike character. A word coined by the first British settlers in the Sydney area from a word in the local Dharug language , it usually includes dance, music, costume and often body decoration .
Australian Aboriginal culture includes a ... Basket weaving has been traditionally practised by the women of many Aboriginal peoples ... A corroboree is a ceremonial ...
corroboree; dilli (a bag) [4] commonly, and tautologically, as "dilly-bag" djanga; gibber (a stone) [4] esp. in gibber plain=stony desert; gin (now a racially offensive word for an Aboriginal woman) gunyah; humpy (a hut) kurdaitcha; lubra (now a racially offensive word for an Aboriginal woman) marn grook; mia-mia (a hut) [4] nulla-nulla; turndun
Gender is an important factor in some ceremonies with men and women having separate ceremonial traditions, such as the Crane Dance. [1] The term "corroboree" is commonly used by non-Indigenous Australians to refer to any Aboriginal dance, although this term has its origins among the people of the Sydney region. In some places, Australian ...
A corroboree broadly refers to a meeting of Aboriginal Australians, sometimes of different clans. [19] The Randwick City Council, in conjunction with the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council, have hosted an annual Koojay Corroboree since 2015, although not running in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [20]
The notion that Europeans were returned spirits of the dead was reported in the case of George Grey, who was recognised by one Aboriginal woman as the spirit of her dead son. Despite offers from fellow Europeans to drive the woman and her family away, Grey accepted the association, allowing a kenning (or corroboree ) to be performed by the ...
The Rasmussen study also found evidence that Aboriginal peoples carry some genes associated with the Denisovans (a species of human related to but distinct from Neanderthals) of Asia; the study suggests that there is an increase in allele sharing between the Denisovan and Aboriginal Australian genomes, compared to other Eurasians or Africans.
The Yugambeh (/ ˌ j ʊ ɡ ʌ m b ɛər / YOO-gum-BERR (see alternative spellings)), also known as the Minyangbal (/ ˌ m ɪ nj ʌ ŋ b ʌ l / MI-nyung-BUHL), [1] [2] [3] or Nganduwal (/ ˌ ŋ ɑː n d ʊ w ʌ l / NGAHN-doo-WUL), [4] are an Aboriginal Australian people of South East Queensland and the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, their territory lies between the Logan and Tweed rivers. [5]