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A corroboree is a generic word for a meeting of Australian Aboriginal peoples. It may be a sacred ceremony , a festive celebration, or of a warlike character. A word coined by the first British settlers in the Sydney area from a word in the local Dharug language , it usually includes dance, music, costume and often body decoration .
The southern corroboree frog was considered relatively numerous within its very small distribution in the 1970s, as of June 2004 it had an estimated adult population of 64, but suffered declines of up to 80% over the 10 years up to 1989, at which time it was found only within a fragmented region of less than 10 km 2 (3.9 sq mi) within ...
The southern corroboree frog (Pseudophryne corroboree) is a species of Australian ground frog native to southeastern Australia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The species was described in 1953 by Fulbright research scholar John A. Moore from a specimen collected at Towong Hill Station at Corryong , Victoria, and sent to the Australian Museum .
On 3 July 1950 it was performed as a ballet, at the Empire Theatre in Sydney, choreographed by Rex Reid, with dancers of the Melbourne-based National Theatre Ballet. [ 2 ] Wildly successful and seen as a national "coming-of-age", [ 3 ] the ballet was performed again with new choreography by American-born dancer, choreographer and writer Beth ...
A corroboree is a generic word for a meeting of Australian Aboriginal peoples. Corroboree may also refer to: Corroboree, a ballet written in the 1940s; Corroboree frog, two species of Australian frog; Waiata, a 1981 Split Enz album entitled Corroboree in Australia
[6] In 1971, Antill was appointed an Officer (OBE) of the Order of the British Empire for services to Australian music. [7] In 1981, he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG). [8] In 1985, the year before his death, he received an Honorary Doctorate in Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong.
Sometimes the boys would have to pass along a path marked on the ground representing the transition from childhood to manhood, and this path might be marked by a stone arrangement or by spirit footprints (mundowa), [6] cut into the rock. In other areas of south-east Australia, a Bora site might consist of two circles of stones, and the boys ...
[3] The reserve is surrounded by the Undoolya pastoral lease which operates as a cattle station . The reserve takes its name from a column of grey dolomite of great significance to the local Aboriginal people, it is known to Europeans as Corroborree rock but is known in the Eastern Arrernte language as Pwenye and this name is also used to ...