Impromtu concert in Historic House in Charleville. Town guide playing the auto harp. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Impromtu concert in Historic House in Charleville. Town guide playing the auto harp. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Aboriginal People of the Charleville district. The south west QLD portion of the Murray Darling Basin i.e. along the Warrego River was one of the most important areas for Aboriginal occupation in QLD. Aboriginal activity has been dated in this region to 20,000 years ago. Over 2,000 Aboriginal cultural sites are recorded in this southwest portion of QLD with many thousands more not recorded yet. Most of these sites along the Warrego and its immediate flood plains. Evidence of Aboriginal occupation along the tributaries of the Darling are: middens, quarries, rock shelters, open camp sites, burials, stone arrangements, wells, scarred and carved trees, rock paintings and engravings, fish traps, axe grinding grooves and sacred and ceremonial sites. Most middens for example have been dated to 6,000 years ago but rock shelter sites have been dated to 20,000 years ago. Recent research has highlighted the role of Aboriginal burning off in this environment. Fires were used by Aboriginal people: for warfare to hide advances and confuse or dislodge hiding enemies; for easing travel along well used routes; for providing light for night time ceremonies; for producing smoke and cleansing items and for use in purifying rituals; for teaching children how to use fire; and most importantly for controlling the landscape and producing grasslands areas for wildlife and food supplies. Most Aboriginal camps were at waterholes, on the river banks, or in water soaks where deep water could always be located even during times of drought. In this south west country stone circles or bora rings were also quite common. They were used for special ceremonies and as markers of Dreamtime stories and mythologically significant places. Earth mounds were occasionally used in this region too. Water holes or wells were often protected by a covering of branches or stones so that they would be easy to find on the next journey to this spot. Higher up the Warrego near Carnarvon Gorge special quarries were used and stencilled art was common up there. Although burial practices varied across this south west region many burials were in hollow tree logs or bodies were wrapped in bark and partially buried. Trees of course provided shelter, bark, grubs, medicines, weapons, coolamons, etc Trees near bora grounds and burial grounds were often marked and carved in some way. Sandstone rocks were mainly used for axes and grindstones because of their relatively soft structure. Freshwater mussels were frequently found in Aboriginal middens near former camp sites along the Warrego and other creeks. Occasionally fish traps were used on the river too. Sometimes the traps were woven nets but more usually they were stone barriers erected by Aboriginal men. A number have been found between Charleville and Roma along creeks and tributaries of the Warrego. When the white pastoralists and town settlers came to the Charleville region in the 1860s everything changed for the Aboriginal people. They were often driven off their former lands and many ended up in bush camps along rivers on white men’s station. Conflicts developed when sheep were used as a food source when the traditional food sources disappeared or were killed. There is documentary evidence that upon one station near Charleville the local Aboriginal elder and leader was given a breastplate in 1866 marked Sambo. It was manufactured in Charleville. He proudly wore that during his lifetime and then it was passed on to another Aboriginal elder who changed the name. Breastplates were no longer used on that station after 1900. Many Aboriginal men ended up working as stockmen on the sheep stations albeit at much lower wages than the white men received. The traditional Aboriginal language of Charleville was Bidjara. This language was spoken up and down the Warrego River from Carnarvon gorge down to Cunnamulla. Many Aboriginal and part Aboriginal people still live in Charleville. Approximately 16% of the town population is of Aboriginal descent. There is an Aboriginal radio station, health service and land development organisation in Charleville. |
| 撮影日 | 2013-08-18 03:25:58 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX30V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.077 sec (1/13) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.0 |