The Bunan Ceremony of New South Wales
Shoalhaven: | Amootoo | Aunty Julie Freeman | Berry's Frankenstein & Arawarra | Bunan ceremony | Byamee's Hands, Shoalhaven River | Cullunghutti - Sacred Mountain | Death ... Arawarra, Berry & Shelley | First Nations research | Gooloo Creek, Conjola | Mickey of Ulladulla | Mount Gigenbullen | Timbery | Ulladulla Mission | Words | Yams | R.H. Mathews. Contents Introduction Article Location Words Discussion References ---------------------- 1. Introduction The month of February 1896 saw Australian anthropologist Robert Hamilton "R.H." Mathews (1841-1918) meeting with local elder George Nipple Bandicoot (born 1823) and other Shoalhaven Aboriginal natives to obtain information about the local bunan ground which he had visited the previous year (1895) and went on to describe in the following academic paper published in The American Anthropologist during October 1896 (Mat...