Tumut and district sesqui centenary / Editors: R.H. Graham and H.D. Watson
- Bib ID:
- 994849
- Format:
- Book
- Printer:
- (Tumut, N.S.W. : Tumut and Adelong Times)
- Description:
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- [S.l. : s.n., 1974]
- 119 p. : ill., ports ; 25 cm.
- Summary:
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"The district's first inhabitants" (p. 46-49) outlines contacts with the Wiradjuri people, their foods and diet (possums, honey, Bogong moths, etc.), ceremnoies surrounding the arrival of Bogong moths, the ravages of smallpox, attacks by Aboriginal people upon settler's livestock, the Myall Creek massacre, estimates of the Aborignal population, murders of Aboriginal people, failures to create local reserves. Photograph of the "last of the Aboriginal chiefs in the Tumut area" Wellington and his wife, Sally. Note on the burial of another chief, Hamilton near Sandy Creek.
- Notes:
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- At head of title: Souvenir programme : 150 years 1824-1974.
- "Produced for the Tumut District Sesqui Centenary Committee" - T.p.
- Subject:
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- Ngarigo / Ngarigu people (S46) (NSW SJ55-04)
- Wiradjuri people (D10) (NSW SI55-07)
- Health - Infectious diseases - Smallpox
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Ngunawal / Ngunnawal people (D3) (NSW SI55-16)
- Animals - Invertebrates - Insects - Butterflies / Moths
- Tumut Region (N.S.W.) -- History
- Tumut (SW NSW SI55-15)
- Adelong (SW NSW SI55-15)
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- Copyright:
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 1974
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