Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Recollections of squatting in Victoria, then called the Port Phillip District (from 1841 to 1851), Edward M. Curr

Includes bibliographical references : page 189

Recollections of squatting in Victoria

Edward M. Curr

then called the Port Phillip District (from 1841 to 1851)

Numerous accounts of contact with natives - Tongala Station (Goulburn R.) - attitude of settlers towards natives; Detailed account of Bangerang tribe marriage, food, hunting, cooking, types of ovens, laws, tribal & inter-tibal relationships, initiation, life cycle, camp life infanticide, tribal etiquette, fire making, mode of burial, physical & mental characteristics, courage; Plates : Aborigines on the Murray; A young native wearing an oppossum-skin cloak; Native of the Bogan; Maps: Squatters rungs in the 1840s; Early squatting rung in the Kilmore-Heathcote District; The Goulburn blacks tribal lands -- Maps show distribution of tribes and sections of Bangerang