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Event

Corroboree

Venue

Adelaide Parklands, Adelaide, SA

First Date

23 February 1872

Dates Estimated

Yes

Status

Unknown

World Premiere

Description

Repeated in Kapunda after success of charging a fee for corroborees performed in the Adelaide Parklands.

Description Source

Article

Primary Genre

Other

Secondary Genre

Indigenous
Corroboree
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Produced
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Created

Resources

Advertisement: Advertising, The Express and Telegraph, National Library of Australia, 5 March 1872, 2
Article: Corroboree, The South Australian Register, 26 March 1872, 5
Topics of the Day, South Australian Advertiser, National Library of Australia, 6 March 1872, 2

In compliance with an advertisement
in the Express, a blaekfellow*' eorrbhoree was
held on the North Park Lands on Tuesday even
ing. Some eight men, daubed over with whiten
ing paste, danced to the monotonous chant of
four lubras. There was a laige number of spec
tators, and the blacks seemed to get a good
many coppers. The exertion appeared rather
violent for this weather, and the part of the
spectators—or those of them who were te> wind
ward—was decidedly the most agreeable.

Article: Topics of the Day, South Australian Advertiser, National Library of Australia, 6 March 1872, 2
Thesis: Michael Parsons, Southern Cross University, Encounters in Touriculture: Indigenous Cultural Tourism in Contested Domains, 1997

Text Nationality

Australia

Production Nationality

Australia

Further Information

Parsons lists the event as taking place on March 5, and Jack Fisherman and George Bennet as contributors but not sure if 'either man or both men was or were Aboriginal'.

Event Status

Completed

Data Source

Source	Description
Mapping Corroboree

Event Identifier

117742

Dataset

AusStage