Boorong (c.1777 – c.1813), also known as Booron or Abaroo, was a Burramattagal woman who was the first female Indigenous Australian to establish significant...
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Wergaia word for 'sky', the Boorong Aboriginal people of the area being distinguished for their interest in star-lore. The Boorong, with their astronomical...
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Englishman who emigrated to Australia in 1841 and befriended the local Boorong people. A constellation used almost everywhere in Australian Aboriginal...
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settlement, another young smallpox survivor, a twelve-year-old girl named Boorong, was brought in. She was taken into the household of the colony's chaplain...
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with his final wife, Boorong. Dickey was adopted by Anglican priest William Walker and christened as Thomas Walter Coke. Boorong was later buried with...
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马腹一 (Mandarin: mǎ fù yī, "the First Star of the Horse's Abdomen"). The Boorong people indigenous to what is now northwestern Victoria, Australia named...
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Naracoorte caves, who moulded men from a tree. One clan of the Wergaia, the Boorong near Lake Tyrrell, had accomplished star-gazers with a sophisticated knowledge...
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yī, English: the First Star of Crooked Running Water). The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria, Australia, named it Yerrerdetkurrk. USS...
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"Sharur and Shargaz". In Coptic, they were called Minamref. The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria (Australia) named it (together with Upsilon...
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南門二 Nán Mén Èr, the Second Star of the Southern Gate. To the Indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria in Australia, Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri...
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018 metres (3,340 ft) Patawarta Hill, at 1,015 metres (3,330 ft) Mount Boorong Mount Karawarra Harold Hill Beacon Hill, at 1,003 metres (3,291 ft) Rawnsley...
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navigation and timekeeping. In Australian Aboriginal mythology for the Boorong people of Victoria, Capella was Purra, the kangaroo, pursued and killed...
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Praesepe Salvatoris. In Australian Aboriginal astronomy, Lyra is known by the Boorong people in Victoria as the Malleefowl constellation. Lyra was known as Urcuchillay...
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violence towards women was well-known. In October 1790 he severely battered Boorong, Bennelong's third wife, and in May 1791 he attempted to abduct a girl...
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and all three are placed in the sky as the constellation Munowra. To the Boorong people of Victoria, Sigma Canis Majoris was Unurgunite (which has become...
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strong" -mokiny semblative dwert-mokiny, "like a dog" -boorong having or existing moorn-boorong, "getting dark" -broo abessive bwoka-broo, "without a coat"...
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cultures, while Crux itself is said to be a possum sitting in a tree (Boorong people of the Wimmera region of northwestern Victoria), a representation...
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stars fell like rain." In the Australian Aboriginal astronomy of the Boorong tribe, the Lyrids represent the scratchings of the Mallee fowl (represented...
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Vanant, a minor divinity whose name means "conqueror". The indigenous Boorong people of north-western Victoria, Australia, named it Neilloan, "the flying...
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taboo preventing a man from approaching his mother-in-law. The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria named Rigel as Collowgullouric Warepil...
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ancestor Waa "Crow" to some Koori people in southeastern Australia. The Boorong people of northwestern Victoria recalled that War (Canopus) was the brother...
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itself is 心宿一 (Xīn Xiù yī), "the First Star of Heart". The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria in Australia saw this star and Tau Scorpii...
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with possible rapid and large fluctuations. In their oral traditions, the Boorong clan of the Wergaia people of Lake Tyrrell, north-western Victoria, Australia...
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activities such as creating a planisphere with both Western scientific and Boorong names for celestial objects. There is a perception that public education...
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1795–1833) – convict hunter Botany Bay Colebee (c. 1763 - after 1790) Boorong (c.1777–c.1813) – Burramattagal woman who was the first Indigenous female...
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Austral Heritage Consultants. Morieson, J. (2008). "The case study of the Boorong", in Jonas Vaiškūnas (ed.), Astronomy and Cosmology in Folk Traditions...
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depicting people sitting in a semicircle around a fire. The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria saw it as Won, a boomerang thrown by Totyarguil...
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resemblance to the Chinese ink tradition. Garcinia Mangostana; Booah Mangies; Boorong Merbo (William Farquhar Collection, 1819–1823) Jasminum; Akar Benang; Pokok...
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Berenices: Fatana-lua, Fata-olunga, Fata-lalo and Kapakau-o-Tafahi. The Boorong people called the constellation Tourt-chinboiong-gherra, and saw it as...
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took into their home an indigenous girl aged about 15, called Araboo or Boorong, who had survived the 1789 Sydney smallpox outbreak. She learned some English...
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