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Burning a Corpse c1798

By
James Neagle
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a1341022 / Q79/60 v. 1, opp. p. 608]
(From 'An account of the English colony in New South Wales...' by David Collins, 1798)

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Neagle, James

State Library of New South Wales

Archaeological evidence of Aboriginal life in Sydney

The lives, activities and material culture of the people who lived in the Sydney area for thousands of years before Europeans arrived are only revealed by archaeological evidence. Sydney has many diverse sites where physical evidence of the first inhabitants can be found, revealing much about their technologies, diets, cultures and occupations, and how these changed in the centuries before European settlement changed everything.

Death and dying in nineteenth century Sydney

In the newly settled colony, cemeteries were an important cultural institution in which the social order could be established and a person's identity within the community could be defined. Through the trappings of the funeral, statements of status, class and religion were constructed and inscribed upon the cemetery landscape.

Aboriginal

Death and Dying