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Lightfoot, Louise

Real Secret River: Dyarubbin project

Darkinyung

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Bandi Bandi

If you're a square you'll have to get hep to bodgey language, March 1951

Mr H J Funnell with Croatian dancers at the second International Folk Festival, Sydney Town Hall 9 May 1958

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Cultural and Language groups

Lightfoot, Louise

A trained architect who became a dancer and teacher, Louise Lightfoot made major contributions to two forms of dance, classical ballet and Indian dance. She founded the First Australian Ballet, and later was an advocate, teacher and entrepreneur of Indian dance forms.

Real Secret River: Dyarubbin project

Collaborative research project led by Professor Grace Karskens as the Coral Thomas Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales 2018-2019. Once every place on Dyarubbin and its tributaries had an Aboriginal name, reflecting ways in which this Country was understood, used and experienced. Now only a handful survive on maps and in common usage. Using a list made by Reverend John McGarvie in 1829 that records the place names used by the Aboriginal people along the Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin), a team of Darug people, historians, archaeologists and linguists identified the original locations, allowing for the recovery, recognition and revitalisation of the river's Aboriginal history, culture and Language.

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Darkinyung

Aboriginal clan and their language in the Hawkesbury, Central Coast and Hunter River areas. Other spellings include as Darkiñung, Darkinung, Darkinjung, Darkinoong.

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McGarvie, John

Second Presbyterian minister in colonial Sydney, the first incumbent at Pitt Town and Ebenezer, and of St Andrews Scots Church. While living in the area, he recorded the names of places along the Hawkesbury River, or Dyarubbin, that local Aboriginal people shared with him. His papers are held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW.

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Bandi Bandi

Location in a crook of the Macdonald River just south of St Albans where Joseph Smith's farm was located in 1829, identified by local Aboriginal people as Bandi Bandi, probably pundy bundi (from the Karree language), meaning carpet snake.

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If you're a square you'll have to get hep to bodgey language, March 1951

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Bodgies and widgies have added to the headaches of the English language by inventing a whole tribe of new expressions.

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State Library of New South Wales

[TN18]

(PIX, 10 March 1951, p23)

Mr H J Funnell with Croatian dancers at the second International Folk Festival, Sydney Town Hall 9 May 1958

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National Archives of Australia

[A12111, 1/1958/17/19]

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