Some more history about our mob, The Wiradjuri People Aboriginal tribes in Mudgee belonged to the Wiradjuri Nation, which extended from the Blue Mountain eastern ranges to the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee rivers in the west, with the Murray River forming the southern border and the Wellington plains and hills the northern border. About 7,000 Wiradjuri people lived in the Bathurst region, when it became the European ruling area and the first town settled west of the Blue Mountains. At Bathurst in 1824, Governor Macquarie found the Wiradjuri a handsome people, truly ‘noble savages’ unaffected by civilized settlement. The governor found them peace loving, content, shy, gracious and having a certain uncivilized innocence as well as being inoffensive and clean in their person. He described the Wiradjuri people as being clothed in mantles made from the skins of opossums, neatly sewn together and the outside of the skin decorated with carvings. Hands on the Rock These stencils of hands were made by the Wiradjuri people, using a spray of ochre mixed with liquid. The Wiradjuri occupied most of the central west of what is now New South Wales, and were one of the largest of Aboriginal language groups. They probably numbered about 12,000 at the time of white settlement. The site of Hands on Rock is at the eastern end of Wiradjuri lands, at the edge of the Great Dividing Range.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 23:54:25 +0000
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