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The Jebribillum Bora Park (also known as Jebbribillum) is located on the south eastern corner of the Gold Coast Highway and 6th Avenue in Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Australia. [1] It contains one of the last intact bora rings on the Gold Coast, which is protected by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984, [2] [3 ...
Bora is an initiation ceremony of the Aboriginal people of Eastern Australia. The word "bora" also refers to the site on which the initiation is performed. At such a site, boys, having reached puberty, achieve the status of men. The initiation ceremony differs from Aboriginal culture to culture, but often, at a physical level, involved ...
There is a men's area not far from sacred mountain at the Jebribillum Bora Park on the Gold Coast Highway. Archaeologist Laila Haglund excavated the Broadbeach burial site , [29] [30] which was unknown to local Aboriginal people, and of which no record existed, that came to light in June 1963, about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) inland from Mermaid ...
Description and identification. The Sunbury earth rings were formed by scraping off grass and topsoil, and piling it in a circular ridge around the outside. They measure between 10 – 25 m diameter. Three of the rings are in close proximity and two others several kilometres away. All are on gently sloping sites.
The Aboriginal culture in the Bundjalung Nation is evident in many aspects, including many bora rings. Casino was an important aboriginal meeting place. A bora ring more than twice the diameter of the average ring was found just north of the town. However, the site was illegally destroyed by Pedrini for landfill at the Casino Hospital site in 1976.
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Yugambeh is the traditional language term for the Aboriginal people that inhabit the territory between the Logan river and the Tweed river. [5] Their ethnonym derives from the Yugambeh word for "no", [31] namely yugam/yugam (beh), [b] reflecting a widespread practice in Aboriginal languages to identify a tribe by the word they used for a ...