Aboriginal History

Volume 26 2002 Aboriginal History Incorporated

The Committee of Management and the Editorial Board Peter Read (Chair), Rob Paton (Secretary), Peter Grimshaw (Treasurer/Public Officer), Richard Baker, Gordon Briscoe, Ann Curthoys, Brian Egloff, Julie Finlayson, Geoff Gray, Niel Gunson, Luise Hercus, David Johnston, Harold Koch, Isabel McBryde, Ingereth Macfarlane, Francis Peters-Little, Deborah Bird Rose, Gary Shipp, Ian Howie-Willis, Elspeth Young. Correspondents Jeremy Beckett, Valerie Chapman, Ian Clark, Eve Fesl, Fay Gale, Ronald Lampert, Campbell Macknight, Ewan Morris, John Mulvaney, Andrew Markus, Bob Reece, Henry Reynolds, Lyndall Ryan, Bruce Shaw, Tom Stannage, Robert Tonkinson, James Urry. Aboriginal History is a refereed journal that aims to present articles and information in the field of Australian ethnohistory, particularly in the post-contact history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Historical studies based on anthropological, archaeological, linguistic and sociological research, including comparative studies of other ethnic groups such as Pacific Islanders in Australia, will be welcomed. Issues include recorded oral traditions and biographies, narratives in local languages with translations, previously unpublished manuscript accounts, resumés of current events, archival and bibliographic articles, and book reviews. This volume of the journal is formally dated 2002, but is published in 2003. Aboriginal History is administered by an Editorial Board which is responsible for all unsigned material in the journal. Views and opinions expressed by the authors of signed articles and reviews are not necessarily shared by Board members. The editors invite authors to submit contributions to either the journal or monograph series for consideration; reviews will be commissioned by the reviews editor. Editors 2002 Managing Editor, Ingereth Macfarlane; Deputy Editor, Ian Howie-Willis; Reviews Editor, Luise Hercus; Copy Editor, Jenny Jefferies. Contacting Aboriginal History All correspondence should be addressed to Aboriginal History, Box 2837 GPO Canberra, 2601, Australia. Sales and orders for journals and monographs, and journal subscriptions : T Boekel, email: [email protected], tel or fax: +61 2 6230 7054, www.aboriginalhistory.org

Acknowledgment Aboriginal History Inc. gratefully acknowledges the support of the School of Social Sciences, History, The Australian National University.

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Cover image: ‘The Yarra Tribe Starting for the Acheson 1862’ (H 13881/14), Page 5, album ‘Australian Aborignies Under Civilization’, State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Picture Collection, LTA 807. Typesetting: Tikka Wilson Printed in Australia by ANU Printing, Canberra ISSN 0314-8769 Aboriginal History

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Introduction v Peter Read Commemoration of Carol Kendall vii Laurent Dousset Politics and demography in a contact situation: the 1 establishment of Giles Meteorological Station in the Rawlinson Ranges, West Australia Geoffrey Gray Dislocating the self: anthropological field work in the 23 Kimberley, , 1934–1936 Peter Read The , the historian and the court 51 room Melinda Hinkson Exploring ‘Aboriginal’ sites in Sydney: a shifting 62 politics of place? Jane Lydon The experimental 1860s: Charles Walter’s images of 78 Aboriginal Station, Victoria Kevin Blackburn Mapping Aboriginal nations: the ‘nation’ concept of 131 late nineteenth century anthropologists in Australia Corinne Manning The McLean Report: legitimising Victoria’s new 159 assimilationism Barry J Blake and The Dhudhuroa language of northeastern Victoria: a 177 Julie Reid description based on historical sources Notes and Documents Sir William Deane Address on the occasion of the launch of Ann 211 Jackson-Nakano’s book The Kamberri Ann Jackson-Nakano Weereewaa History Series Volumes I & II 214 Grant Austin Discovering my Aboriginal identity 217 Jilda Simpson Report from the White–Barwick scholar 219 Jeanette Covacevich First formal Australian record of a tree kangaroo: 220 Aboriginal, not European Review article Niel Gunson Reality, history and hands-on ethnography: the 224 journals of George Augustus Robinson at Port Phillip 1839–1852 iv ABORIGINAL HISTORY 2002 VOL 26

Book reviews Mission Girls: Aboriginal women on Catholic Missions in 238 the Kimberley, Western Australia, 1900–1950 by Christine Choo It’s not the money it’s the land: Aboriginal stockmen and 240 the equal wages case by Bill Bunbury Tula: genesis and genius, edited by Hannah 242 Fink and Hetti Perkins Rethinking Indigenous education: culturalism, colonialism 245 and the politics of knowing by Cathryn McConaghy Phyllis Kaberry and me: anthropology, history and 250 Aboriginal Australia by Sandy Toussaint A Gumbaynggir Language Dictionary, Muurrbay 252 Aboriginal Language and Culture Cooperative, Steve Morelli (comp.) Rednecks, eggheads and blackfellas: a study of racial power 254 and intimacy in Australia by Gillian Cowlishaw Colonial photography and exhibitions: representations of 257 the ‘native’ and the making of European identities by Anne Maxwell The cultivation of whiteness: science, health and racial 259 destiny in Australia by Warwick Anderson Bitin’ Back by Vivienne Cleven 262 We won the victory: Aborigines and outsiders on the north- 265 west coast of the Kimberley by Ian Crawford Through silent country by Carolyn Wadley Dowley 267 A terribly wild man: a biography of the Rev Ernest Gribble 270 by Christine Halse