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Leanne Mulgo Watson

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The Dyarubbin Project: Aboriginal history, culture and places on the Hawkesbury River

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Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)

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Watson, Leanne Mulgo

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Waterholes 2018 by Leanne Mulgo Watson

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Watson, Leanne Mulgo

Artist, researcher and educator. Director of the Darug Custodian Aboriginal Corporation.

The Dyarubbin Project: Aboriginal history, culture and places on the Hawkesbury River

The winner of the State Library of NSW Coral Thomas Fellowship in 2018-19 was a collaborative project, The Real Secret River: Dyarubbin. Based on a list of Aboriginal words recorded along Dyarubbin (the Hawkesbury River) in the 1820s by Reverend John McGarvie that is held in the Mitchell LIbrary, winning the Fellowship allowed the team behind the project to work on the recovery, recognition and revitalisation of the river's Darug and Darkinjung history, culture and Language.

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Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)

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River that runs for 120 kilometres from the confluence of the Nepean and Grose rivers west of Sydney to Broken Bay north of Sydney. The Darug and Darkinjung people who lived along the river called it Dyarubbin.

Hawkesbury district

Area surrounding the Hawkesbury River to Sydney's north and north-west, which was important in early colonial agriculture and the site of the early towns of Richmond and Windsor.

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Watson, Leanne Mulgo

Darug artist, researcher and educator. Chair of the Darug Custodian Aboriginal Corporation.

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Waterholes 2018 by Leanne Mulgo Watson

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Painting by Darug artist Leanne Mulgo Watson that was inspired by the lagoons around Ebenezer in the Hawkebury district, and all the life and nourishment they offered people. It was commissioned as part of the Dyarubbin: Real Secret River research project in 2018.