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EUROBODALLA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL HERITAGE STUDY South Coast NSW Plate 1: Listing of Individuals to whom blankets were issued at Bateman’s Bay in 1834. 84 Oldrey described the people attending the blanket distribution at Broulee as having come from, “… the Coast, extending 60 Miles to the South, and more than that distance to the North…”. 85 The following day William Oldrey wrote to the Colonial Secretary requesting that he be provided with additional blankets to distribute: 84 Walter Thompson to Colonial Secretary, 25 th November, 1834, Batemans Bay, Colonial Secretary Special Bundles: Aborigines 1833-35: Papers dealing with the issue of blankets, and including returns of the native population in the various districts, 4/6666B.3, State Records of New South Wales. 85 William Oldrey to Colonial Secretary, 29 th May, 1842, Colonial Secretary Special Bundles: Aborigines: 1837-44, 4/1133.3, State Records of New South Wales. Goulding Heritage Consulting Pty Ltd 44
EUROBODALLA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL HERITAGE STUDY South Coast NSW I have the honor to inform you that the Bales of Blankets have been recieved (sic) here, containing 170 Single Blankets. The whole were issued on Friday last at the Court House Browlee ; and I regret to state that there are about 100 Aborigines that without Blankets in this District, several of whom are labouring under sickness & Disease: the cold & Wet in this neighbourhood and to the Southward, have been severely felt by them. 86 Oldrey’s request for additional blankets was refused and in his letter of response to the Colonial Secretary Oldrey stated: I have only to express, the regret, I feel, that after the representations I have had the honor to make, so great a number of Aborigines should still be left to suffer, in this District, from illness, which is principally to be ascribed, to their want of blankets, or some other warm coverings, to shelter them from the effects of the Cold, & Wet weather, prevalent in this quarter at this Season of the year. 87 In the following year, 1843, Oldrey again supplied a list of those who received blankets at Broulee. There are a total of 136 people listed by name, with estimates of their age and their place of normal residence, in addition there are 20 children with no further information provided. 88 Records of Ceremonial Life and Stories There is little documentary material relating to the ceremonial life or stories of Aboriginal people within the Eurobodalla area in the nineteenth century. However, as noted earlier the boundaries of the Eurobodalla Shire do not relate to the realities of Aboriginal groupings and social patterns, or indeed to the social patterns of early European settlers. The people of the Eurobodalla area were, and are, part of the ceremonial life of the broader south coast region. A discussion of such ceremonial networks is beyond the scope of this report. 89 Nonetheless, it is of interest to note that in the account by the amateur ethnographer A.W. Howitt of the initiation ceremony held on Mumbulla Mountain, just to the south of the Eurobodalla area, in 1883, mention is made of people attending from Moruya and Bateman’s Bay in addition to areas further north. 90 86 William Oldrey to Colonial Secretary, 7 th May, 1842, Colonial Secretary Special Bundles: Aborigines: 1837-44, 4/1133.3, State Records of New South Wales. 87 William Oldrey to Colonial Secretary, 29 th May, 1842, Colonial Secretary Special Bundles: Aborigines: 1837-44, 4/1133.3, State Records of New South Wales. 88 William Oldrey ‘List of Natives in Broulee district who received blankets… Broulee, 1843’, Colonial Secretary Special Bundles: Aborigines: 1837-44, 4/1133.3, State Records of New South Wales. A scanned copy of the original is included as Appendix 5 of this report. 89 In relation to this issue see for example: ; Lee Chittick & Terry Fox, Travelling with Percy: A South Coast Journey, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1997. ; Brian Egloff, Nicolas Peterson & Sue Wesson, Biamanga National Park and Gulaga National Park Aboriginal Owners Research Report, Office of the Registrar, Aboriginal Lands Rights Act, 2001. ; Deborah Bird Rose, Gulaga: A Report on the Cultural Significance of Mt Dromedary to Aboriginal People, Forestry Commission of NSW & NSW NPWS, 1990. ; Deborah Rose, Diana James & Christine Watson, Indigenous Kinship with the Natural World in New South Wales, NSW NPWS, 2003. ; Eileen Morgan, The Calling of the Spirits, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1994. 90 Howitt, op.cit., pp.527,537. Goulding Heritage Consulting Pty Ltd 45
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