This paper discusses a corroboree performed in Darwin in 1893 to illustrate the potential of British ethnographic collections for researching overlooked historical events. The performance was brought to light after a collection of Aboriginal artefacts used in it was noted and examined by the author in the collections of Marischal Museum, Aberdeen, in 2016. The description of the performance and associated objects extends understanding of the nature of cross-cultural engagements in late nineteenth-century Darwin and raises museological questions about methodologies for engaging Aboriginal people in the research and interpretation of historic objects.1
{"title":"A corroboree for the Countess of Kintore: Enlivening histories through objects","authors":"Gaye Sculthorpe","doi":"10.22459/ah.42.2018.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ah.42.2018.03","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses a corroboree performed in Darwin in 1893 to illustrate the potential of British ethnographic collections for researching overlooked historical events. The performance was brought to light after a collection of Aboriginal artefacts used in it was noted and examined by the author in the collections of Marischal Museum, Aberdeen, in 2016. The description of the performance and associated objects extends understanding of the nature of cross-cultural engagements in late nineteenth-century Darwin and raises museological questions about methodologies for engaging Aboriginal people in the research and interpretation of historic objects.1","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42134744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In July 2017, a new date was published from archaeological excavations in western Arnhem Land that pushed the opening chapters of Australian history back to 65,000 years ago.1 It is the latest development in a time revolution that has gripped the nation over the past half century. Stimulated by this new research, the authors of this article, together with geochronologist Bert Roberts, held a forum in Wollongong to explore the ways in which the Australian public have made sense of the deep Aboriginal history of Australia. A distillation of this discussion was published in The Conversation in November 2017 with the title, 'When Did Australia's Human History Begin?'
{"title":"What we were told: Responses to 65,000 years of Aboriginal history","authors":"Bill Griffiths, Lynette Russell","doi":"10.22459/AH.42.2018.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.42.2018.02","url":null,"abstract":"In July 2017, a new date was published from archaeological excavations in western Arnhem Land that pushed the opening chapters of Australian history back to 65,000 years ago.1 It is the latest development in a time revolution that has gripped the nation over the past half century. Stimulated by this new research, the authors of this article, together with geochronologist Bert Roberts, held a forum in Wollongong to explore the ways in which the Australian public have made sense of the deep Aboriginal history of Australia. A distillation of this discussion was published in The Conversation in November 2017 with the title, 'When Did Australia's Human History Begin?'","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41643250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tim Rowse's book, 'Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901' (2017), raises timely questions about the writing of Aboriginal history, as well as offering insights into contemporary political debates. In this conversation, conducted via email, we examine some of the book's arguments, the evidence drawn on to make them and why these interventions are necessary today. In the introduction to the book, Rowse draws attention to W.E.H. Stanner's hope for telling the 'the story ... of the unacknowledged relations between two racial groups within a single field of life'. He shows why this was and continues to be so difficult in terms of identity, territorial control and jurisdictional practice. In Australia, indigeneity does not mean one thing, and its meaning has changed and become increasingly plural over time; for much of the twentieth century there were really two Australias - north and south - that were represented and governed differently; and two sovereignties - one kin-based, the other state-based - that have posed considerable challenges to each other, right up to the present. This argument serves as the jumping-off point for the conversation.
Tim Rowse的书《1901年以来的原住民和其他澳大利亚人》（2017）及时提出了关于原住民历史书写的问题，并对当代政治辩论提供了见解。在这场通过电子邮件进行的对话中，我们研究了这本书的一些论点，提出这些论点的证据，以及为什么这些干预措施在今天是必要的。在这本书的引言中，Rowse提请人们注意W.E.H.Stanner希望讲述“这个故事。。。“在一个生活领域内，两个种族群体之间未被承认的关系”。他展示了为什么这在身份、领土控制和管辖实践方面过去和现在都如此困难。在澳大利亚，土著并不意味着一件事，随着时间的推移，它的含义发生了变化，变得越来越多元；在二十世纪的大部分时间里，实际上有两个澳大利亚——北方和南方——以不同的方式代表和治理；以及两个主权——一个以亲属为基础，另一个以国家为基础——迄今为止，这两个主权对彼此构成了相当大的挑战。这个论点是谈话的出发点。
{"title":"Indigenous and other Australians since 1901: A conversation between Professor Tim Rowse and Dr Miranda Johnson","authors":"Miranda Johnson, T. Rowse","doi":"10.22459/AH.42.2018.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.42.2018.06","url":null,"abstract":"Tim Rowse's book, 'Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901' (2017), raises timely questions about the writing of Aboriginal history, as well as offering insights into contemporary political debates. In this conversation, conducted via email, we examine some of the book's arguments, the evidence drawn on to make them and why these interventions are necessary today. In the introduction to the book, Rowse draws attention to W.E.H. Stanner's hope for telling the 'the story ... of the unacknowledged relations between two racial groups within a single field of life'. He shows why this was and continues to be so difficult in terms of identity, territorial control and jurisdictional practice. In Australia, indigeneity does not mean one thing, and its meaning has changed and become increasingly plural over time; for much of the twentieth century there were really two Australias - north and south - that were represented and governed differently; and two sovereignties - one kin-based, the other state-based - that have posed considerable challenges to each other, right up to the present. This argument serves as the jumping-off point for the conversation.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49599641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
[Eliza] must understand distinctly that when she reaches Perth she is under my control, and must do as she is told. Subsequently Eliza was brought to me by Policewoman Dugdale, and she [Eliza] claimed that she was the daughter of a half-caste by a white father, and was not therefore subject to the provisions of the Aborigines Act in regard to her movements and our desire to send her back to the Mission.
{"title":"Benevolent Benedictines? Vulnerable missions and Aboriginal policy in the time of A.O. Neville","authors":"E. Taylor","doi":"10.22459/AH.42.2018.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.42.2018.05","url":null,"abstract":"[Eliza] must understand distinctly that when she reaches Perth she is under my control, and must do as she is told. Subsequently Eliza was brought to me by Policewoman Dugdale, and she [Eliza] claimed that she was the daughter of a half-caste by a white father, and was not therefore subject to the provisions of the Aborigines Act in regard to her movements and our desire to send her back to the Mission.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49350496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article presents an account of the events organised in Sydney by the National Aborigines Day Observance Committee (NADOC) in its first decade, 1957-67. While committees operated in other states, the NADOC in New South Wales was the most prominent in those years. The significance of NADOC, or NAIDOC as it is has been known since the 1970s, is evident in the organisation's survival. It has developed into Australia's largest annual celebration of the 'history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples'. Yet there exists to date only a brief historical account of its development.
{"title":"NADOC and the National Aborigines Day in Sydney, 1957–67","authors":"J. Bollen, A. Brewster","doi":"10.22459/AH.42.2018.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.42.2018.01","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents an account of the events organised in Sydney by the National Aborigines Day Observance Committee (NADOC) in its first decade, 1957-67. While committees operated in other states, the NADOC in New South Wales was the most prominent in those years. The significance of NADOC, or NAIDOC as it is has been known since the 1970s, is evident in the organisation's survival. It has developed into Australia's largest annual celebration of the 'history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples'. Yet there exists to date only a brief historical account of its development.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48138288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indigenous Archives: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art","authors":"Gretchen Stolte","doi":"10.22459/ah.42.2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ah.42.2018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42944060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
On the afternoon of 16 January 1895, a group of visitors to the Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, gathered to perform songs and hymns with the Aboriginal residents of Lake Tyers Aboriginal Mission. Several visitors from the nearby Lake Tyers House assisted with the preparations and an audience of Aboriginal mission residents and visitors spent a pleasant summer evening performing together and enjoying refreshments. The 'program' included an opening hymn by 'the Aborigines' followed by songs and hymns sung by friends of the mission, the missionary's daughter and a duet by two Aboriginal women, Mrs E. O'Rourke and Mrs Jennings, who in particular received hearty applause for their performance of 'Weary Gleaner'. The success of this shared performance is recorded by an anonymous hand in the Lake Tyers visitor book, noting that 9 pounds 6 shillings was collected from the enthusiastic audience. The missionary's wife, Caroline Bulmer, was most likely responsible for this note celebrating the success of an event that stands out among the comments of visitors to Lake Tyers. One such visitor was a woman named Miss Florrie Powell who performed the song 'The Old Countess' after the duet by Mrs O'Rourke and Mrs Jennings. She wrote effusively in the visitor book that 'to give you an idea of enjoyment down here would be impossible. Everyone must find out for him or herself. The happiest time of my life was spent here. The kindness of Mrs and Mr Bulmer is past description'.
1895年1月16日下午，一群游客来到维多利亚州的吉普斯兰湖，与泰尔斯湖土著传教会的土著居民一起表演歌曲和赞美诗。来自附近的泰尔斯湖之家的几位游客协助准备，土著教会居民和游客一起度过了一个愉快的夏日夜晚，一起表演，享受茶点。“节目”包括“土著”的开场赞美诗，随后是传教士的女儿和传教士的朋友们唱的歌曲和赞美诗，以及两位土著妇女E. O' rourke夫人和Jennings夫人的二重唱，她们因表演“疲惫的拾荒者”而获得了热烈的掌声。这次共享演出的成功被一位匿名人士记录在了泰尔斯湖的游客登记簿上，并指出从热情的观众那里收取了9英镑6先令。这位传教士的妻子卡洛琳·布尔默(Caroline Bulmer)很可能是这张纸条的作者，她写这张纸条是为了庆祝一次活动的成功，这次活动在前往提尔斯湖的游客的评论中非常引人注目。其中一位来访者是弗洛里·鲍威尔小姐，她在奥罗克夫人和詹宁斯夫人的二重唱之后演唱了《老伯爵夫人》。她在访客登记簿上热情洋溢地写道:“我不可能让你觉得在这里有什么乐趣。每个人都必须自己找出答案。我一生中最快乐的时光是在这里度过的。布尔默太太和布尔默先生的善良是无法形容的。”
{"title":"'The happiest time of my life ': Emotive visitor books and early mission tourism to Victoria's Aboriginal reserves","authors":"Nikita Vanderbyl","doi":"10.22459/AH.41.2017.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.41.2017.05","url":null,"abstract":"On the afternoon of 16 January 1895, a group of visitors to the Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, gathered to perform songs and hymns with the Aboriginal residents of Lake Tyers Aboriginal Mission. Several visitors from the nearby Lake Tyers House assisted with the preparations and an audience of Aboriginal mission residents and visitors spent a pleasant summer evening performing together and enjoying refreshments. The 'program' included an opening hymn by 'the Aborigines' followed by songs and hymns sung by friends of the mission, the missionary's daughter and a duet by two Aboriginal women, Mrs E. O'Rourke and Mrs Jennings, who in particular received hearty applause for their performance of 'Weary Gleaner'. The success of this shared performance is recorded by an anonymous hand in the Lake Tyers visitor book, noting that 9 pounds 6 shillings was collected from the enthusiastic audience. The missionary's wife, Caroline Bulmer, was most likely responsible for this note celebrating the success of an event that stands out among the comments of visitors to Lake Tyers. One such visitor was a woman named Miss Florrie Powell who performed the song 'The Old Countess' after the duet by Mrs O'Rourke and Mrs Jennings. She wrote effusively in the visitor book that 'to give you an idea of enjoyment down here would be impossible. Everyone must find out for him or herself. The happiest time of my life was spent here. The kindness of Mrs and Mr Bulmer is past description'.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"17 1","pages":"95-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74711970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Art history is replete with works whose prior existence is affirmed only by text, most commonly through titles and descriptions in catalogues, but also by passing mentions in other sources. A significant Australian colonial illustration of this phenomenon of textually surviving lost art concerns ‘Several Paintings on Panel’, described in detail by a colonial witness, which depict scenes intended to convey government messages to Indigenous Tasmanians during the Vandemonian War. These descriptions do not match the better known and frequently reproduced Tasmanian Picture Boards, typified in Figure 1, which survive in several archives around the world and have been the subject of considerable study and commentary. Their iconographical recovery is, we argue, an important correction to the imagery of frontier relations in 1820s and 1830s Van Diemen’s Land specifically and colonial Australia more generally.
{"title":"Other picture boards in Van Diemen’s Land: The recovery of lost illustrations of frontier violence and relationships","authors":"N. Brodie, K. Harman","doi":"10.22459/AH.41.2017.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.41.2017.01","url":null,"abstract":"Art history is replete with works whose prior existence is affirmed only by text, most commonly through titles and descriptions in catalogues, but also by passing mentions in other sources. A significant Australian colonial illustration of this phenomenon of textually surviving lost art concerns ‘Several Paintings on Panel’, described in detail by a colonial witness, which depict scenes intended to convey government messages to Indigenous Tasmanians during the Vandemonian War. These descriptions do not match the better known and frequently reproduced Tasmanian Picture Boards, typified in Figure 1, which survive in several archives around the world and have been the subject of considerable study and commentary. Their iconographical recovery is, we argue, an important correction to the imagery of frontier relations in 1820s and 1830s Van Diemen’s Land specifically and colonial Australia more generally.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"79 1","pages":"3-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84134779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
On 17 September 1849, Henry Valette Jones and Henry Thomas Morris appeared at the Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court charged with the wilful murder of Melaityappa, a Narungga man from Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.1 Described as ‘pale, wasted and thoughtful’, Jones and Morris were ‘very different from the ruddy, reckless, dashing young fellows’ who appeared at their Police Court trial three weeks earlier.2 Jones and Morris’s incarceration and Supreme Court trial occurred during a crucial stage of Indigenous‒settler relations in the 13-year-old colony’s history. Disturbing news of outbreaks of violence and fatalities on Yorke and Eyre peninsulas had been reaching Adelaide since January 1849.3 For numerous reasons, the trial was unprecedented. It provided a unique opportunity to test the much-vaunted, consoling perception held by many South Australian colonists that, in their colony at least, Aboriginal people were protected and treated as equals under British law. Government officials, pastoralists and newspaper editors had strong and diverse opinions on who was to blame for settler‒Aboriginal violence and how conflict could be avoided. The case bought to the fore the tension – or rather incompatibility
{"title":"The murder of Melaityappa and how Judge Mann succeeded in making ‘the administration of justice palatable’ to South Australian colonists in 1849","authors":"Skye Krichauff","doi":"10.22459/AH.41.2017.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.41.2017.02","url":null,"abstract":"On 17 September 1849, Henry Valette Jones and Henry Thomas Morris appeared at the Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court charged with the wilful murder of Melaityappa, a Narungga man from Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.1 Described as ‘pale, wasted and thoughtful’, Jones and Morris were ‘very different from the ruddy, reckless, dashing young fellows’ who appeared at their Police Court trial three weeks earlier.2 Jones and Morris’s incarceration and Supreme Court trial occurred during a crucial stage of Indigenous‒settler relations in the 13-year-old colony’s history. Disturbing news of outbreaks of violence and fatalities on Yorke and Eyre peninsulas had been reaching Adelaide since January 1849.3 For numerous reasons, the trial was unprecedented. It provided a unique opportunity to test the much-vaunted, consoling perception held by many South Australian colonists that, in their colony at least, Aboriginal people were protected and treated as equals under British law. Government officials, pastoralists and newspaper editors had strong and diverse opinions on who was to blame for settler‒Aboriginal violence and how conflict could be avoided. The case bought to the fore the tension – or rather incompatibility","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"20 1","pages":"23-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91103097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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