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The Boonwurrung people have oral histories that recount in detail the flooding of Port Phillip Bay ten-thousand years ago. The boundaries of Boonwurrung territory are defined by further floods 5000 years ago. Prior to this time, the bay was scrub-filled and passable on foot, and the Boonwurrung people hunted kangaroo and possums on it. [6]
Woiwurrung was spoken by the Woiwurrung and related peoples in the Yarra River basin, Taungurung by the Taungurung people north of the Great Dividing Range in the Goulburn River Valley around Mansfield, Benalla and Heathcote, and Boonwurrung by the six clans which comprised the Boonwurrung people along the coast from the Werribee River, across ...
Sewn and incised possum-skin cloak of Wurundjeri origin (Melbourne Museum). The Woiwurrung tribes would have been aware of the Europeans, through the close relationship to the Boon wurrung people of the coast who came into contact with the Baudin expedition on the French ship Naturaliste during 1801, and then the British settlement at Sullivan Bay in 1803, near modern-day Sorrento, Victoria.
[a] At the time of British settlement in the 1830s, the collective populations of the Woiwurrung, Boonwurrung and Wadawurrung tribes of the Kulin nation was estimated to be under 20,000. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ b ] The Kulin lived by fishing, cultivating murnong (also called yam daisy; Microseris ) as well as hunting and gathering , and made a ...
The new borderline runs across the city from west to east, with the CBD, Richmond and Hawthorn included in Wurundjeri land, and Albert Park, St Kilda and Caulfield on Boonwurrung land. It was agreed that Mount Cottrell , the site of a massacre in 1836 with at least 10 Wathaurong victims, would be jointly managed above the 160 m (520 ft) line.
The Taungurung people used the King and Howqua River valleys as a major route for trade or war between tribes. [4] The Howqua River valley contains a number of archaeological sites of significance including at least two quarry sites for greenstone, an exceptionally hard rock used for stone axes, spears and other cutting tools which the Taungurung traded with other tribes.
Boonwurrung, Dja Dja Wurrung, Taungurung, Wurundjeri see List of Indigenous Australian group names The Wadawurrung nation, also called the Wathaurong , Wathaurung , and Wadda Wurrung , are an Aboriginal Australian people living in the area near Melbourne , Geelong , and the Bellarine Peninsula in the state of Victoria .
Kulin. Wuy-wurrung. Wuy-wurrung dialect; Bun-wurrung dialect; Dhagung-wurrung dialect (the first three entries above) Wadha-wurrung (Wuddyawurru, Witouro); Wemba-Wemba. Jaja-wurrung dialect