Skip to main content
  1. The Dictionary of Sydney
  2. Multimedia
  3. Bora Rock: aboriginal markings near Manly Water...

Bora Rock: aboriginal markings near Manly Water-works Gully 13 September 1891

By
James Samuel Bray
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[c004070016 / PXA 187, 14]
(Mitchell Library)

Browse

  • Browse
    • Artefacts
    • Buildings
    • Events
    • Natural Features
    • Organisations
    • People
    • Places
    • Structures
    • Entries
    • Multimedia
    • Subjects
    • Roles
    • Contributors
Connections
Appears in
Manly Cove, Kai'ymay
Subjects
Aboriginal Archaeology Visual Arts
Places
Manly Manly Vale

Footer

  • Home
  • About
  • Copyright
  • Contact

Footer Secondary

  • Contribute
  • Donate

Bray, James Samuel

Works by amateur naturalist, author and erratic entrepreneur in late colonial Sydney.

State Library of New South Wales

Manly Cove, Kai'ymay

Manly Cove was the site for first encounters between people from opposite sides of the globe; the site of greeting, gift-giving and dancing, of goodwill and curiosity, as well as betrayal, violence, justice and retribution.

Aboriginal

Archaeology

Visual Arts

Manly

full record »

Peninsular suburb at the northern entrance to Port Jackson, which faces both the harbour and the ocean. Its name comes from the 'confidence and manly behaviour' of the Aboriginal people encountered there by Governor Arthur Phillip in 1788.

Manly Vale

Small residential suburb between North Manly and Balgowlah.
full record »