{"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}
{"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}
{"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}
{"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}
{"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}
{"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}
{"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}
{"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}