PEOPLE
The following images, drawn from miscellaneous
sources, illustrate key Awabakal people, and other non-Aboriginal
people who have played a role in the Aboriginal history of the
Newcastle Lake Macquarie region.
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1. "Biraban (McGill)", 1839,
from John Fraser's, An Australian Language (Fraser
1892: 88a.)
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2. "M'Gill", drawn by the the
artist Alfred T. Agate of the United States Exploring Expedition,
who visited Lake Macquarie in December 1839. This illustration
appeared in C. Wilkes' Narrative of the United States
Exploring Expedition (Wilkes
1845: 254), and was reproduced for Threlkeld's Key
to the Structure of the Aboriginal Language (1850),
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3. A "New Holland Boy", illustration
in C. Wilkes' Narrative of the United States Exploring
Expedition (Wilkes
1845: 254).
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4. "Magill" (Birabahn). Watercolour ; 26.8
x 22 cm., c. 1819, by convict artist, Richard Browne of
Newcastle, 1776-1824. National Library of Australia.
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5. Dry Plate Photograph of Rev L E Threlkeld,
1788-1859. Not dated, but probably taken not long before
his death in 1859. The daguerrotype, the first commercial
photographic system, was licensed by its inventor to the
French government in 1839. State Library of New South Wales
Picture Collection.
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6. Reverend Dr. John Fraser (1834-1904),
author of An Australian Language (Fraser
1892). Image from Maitland and District Historical Society,
A New History of Maitland. Maitland: Maitland City
Council, 1983: 35.
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7. Margaret, died 14 October 1894 in Newcastle
Hospital. Image curtesy of Nola, Leah and Kerrie (nee Powell).
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8. Awabakal women Leah, Nola and Kerrie
(nee Powell).
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