Biripi Nation: |
Information on the Biripi peoples is fragmentary and at this point there is no definitive work on their history or culture. The following links are to websites containing information on the Biripi or to scans of articles or book sections that the library has collected.
N.B. There are a number of variant spellings of the name Biripi.References also appear in the literature to Birripai, Bripi, Biripai, Birrbay etc.
Websites: |
Indigenous Australians Using Trees And Timber
Discusses the use of local trees and plants by the Biripi people.
From the Timbertown website.
Scanned Documents: |
From 'The Australian Race: No. 186-Port Macquarie'
A handbook of Aboriginal languages of New South Wales
Ch. 6 Hunter - Hastings Languages
by B.J.S.Ryan (1963-4)
About Native Language.
Some words and their meanings (source unknown)
Gadhang (Kattang) Language Revitalisation.
Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-Operative
(1991)
by Valerie Campbell (1978)
Indigenous Australians using Trees and Timber.
An excerpt from Some Timber Stories of the Hastings by Elaine van Kempen (2003)
History
North Coast Women: a history to 1939
by Baiba Berzins (1996)
Baal Belbora: the end of the dancing
by Geoffrey Blomfield (1986)
The Kattang (Katthung) or Worimi: an Aboriginal Tribe
by W.J.Enright
'The Aborigines at Port Macquarie'
from Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany Vol. 26 1838 pp224-225
Her Story: searching for the Lost Women of the Two Rivers.
Chapter One - The First Women of the Two Rivers by Narelle Matthews (2005)
Miscellaneous Documents
The Up River murders
Port Macquarie News June 29, 1981
Cricketers of yore
Port Macquarie news September 17, 1979
By gum she's right (fish trap at Point Plomer)
Port Macquarie News March 18, 1979
Aborigines' Week puts focus on sacred sites
Port Macquarie News July 8, 1981
Study on Hastings Aboriginal Culture
Port Macquarie News July 8,1981
"Bunyah Jimmy" King of the Hastings River
Hastings gazette 1983
Those Blacks
Port Macquarie News February 1892
Unacknowledged references to Hastings area Aboriginals - timeline
Thomas Dick
Port Macquarie news march 23, 1981
Three Birroguns reflected in Aboriginal dreamtime
Port Macquarie News January 19, 1998
Map of the Hastings region Aboriginal nations
by J.H. Watson 1984
Charlie "King Murri"
(no source)
"Koree-Koree Nabbe Doongang" (general article about Hastings region Aboriginals)
(no source)