Benang: From the HeartOceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, this intriguing journey is a celebration and lament--of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing, and of powerful utterance. Both tentative and daring, it speaks to the present and a possible future through stories, dreams, rhythms, songs, images and documents mobilized from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past. |
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Page 105
... Gebalup , but was only completed this date . The delay was due to the woman Fanny being induced by other natives to go to Barren Peaks and Munglinup , ninety to one hundred miles from Gebalup , last August . I seized her and the ...
... Gebalup , but was only completed this date . The delay was due to the woman Fanny being induced by other natives to go to Barren Peaks and Munglinup , ninety to one hundred miles from Gebalup , last August . I seized her and the ...
Page 106
... Gebalup . If so , I think she should be allowed to remain . The baby is still at breast and could best stay with her ... Gebalup community I have serious objections to the woman remaining in the Gebalup district instead of being removed ...
... Gebalup . If so , I think she should be allowed to remain . The baby is still at breast and could best stay with her ... Gebalup community I have serious objections to the woman remaining in the Gebalup district instead of being removed ...
Page 117
... Gebalup , pulling him back . Gebalup , the town there , was dying . With no new people arriving and hungry to impose themselves upon this country ; with no railway , no telegraph , and with only shifting , sandy roads to connect it to ...
... Gebalup , pulling him back . Gebalup , the town there , was dying . With no new people arriving and hungry to impose themselves upon this country ; with no railway , no telegraph , and with only shifting , sandy roads to connect it to ...
Common terms and phrases
Aborigines arms Auber Aunty Australian Natives Association beach Benang bird boat camp campfire Chief Protector child Constable Hall Daniel Coolman dark Dinah Dubitj Creek dunes Ern's eyes face Fanny father feet felt fire Frederickstown Gebalup girl Grandad grandfather grandfather's grinning half-caste hands Harriette head heard held hessian horse Jack Chatalong Kathleen kids Kim Scott knew Kylie Bay land laughed listened looked mallee Mason Mogumber mother moved Mustle natives Neville Nyoongar Nyungar once paperbarks perhaps police policeman Protector of Aborigines quadroon railway rainwater tank remember sand seemed Sergeant Hall shoulder sister skin smile someone Starr stay talk teamsters thin things thought told Tommy took Topsy town trees turned Uncle Jack voice wagon walked wanted watched wife wind Wirlup Haven woman women words Yeah