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VOLUME 26 ISSUE 2 April 2019 AboriginalPrime Minister’s Indigenous heritage Advisory Council visit Alastair Crombie Honorary Curator Hall School Museum and Heritage Centre On 13 February the Hall Members were welcomed School Museum and to the Centre by Honorary Heritage Centre was Curator Alastair Crombie. honoured by a visit from Aunty Matilda’s grandson members of the Prime Reuben House played Minister’s Indigenous didgeridoo to accompany Advisory Council. With her welcome to country the guidance of Ngambri- for us and the visitors, Ngunnawal elder Aunty before the group inspected Matilda House, Council the Halls Creek Aboriginal members wanted to have display and the local stone some direct contact with artefact display ‘Stones that country while in Canberra Speak’. Finally, the group for a Council meeting, took their minibus down and so made visits to an to the creek to view the old family campsite of Aunty magnificent Aboriginal Matilda’s family at Flinders Council members at the Halls Creek scarred tree: Co-Chair scarred tree there. Ms Andrea Mason OAM, Mr Djambawa Marawili AM, Way, Red Hill, and to an While enjoying refresh- Co-Chair Councillor Roy Ah-See, Mr Reuben House, Dr Aboriginal site at Pialligo, Matilda House, Ms Susan Murphy and Councillor Ted Fraser. ments with us, Council before coming to the Centre. members shared wisdom As a National Council, members are naturally and experience in a most natural and engaging way, drawn from a number of far-flung places, which was greatly appreciated. Aunty Matilda and our including the Kimberley, central Australia, Torres volunteers discussed the idea of incorporating some local Strait and Arnhem Land. Members are highly Aboriginal language and voices into our display, and Andrea regarded, pre-eminent thinkers and practitioners. Mason noted that it was International Year of Indigenous The Council’s role is to advise Government on Languages. Other Council members told us of the practical changes which can be made to improve challenge that still remains in educating future generations the lives of Indigenous peoples. about our country’s Aboriginal history. ‘Stories in Dirt’ The ‘Halls Creek Aboriginal and the accompanying Sites Zone’ extends about remnant woodland, as a 1800 metres along the place of special value within creek margins in public open the Hall Heritage Precinct. space or rural leased land, upstream from the Barton ‘Stories in Dirt’ is the Highway to the back of the user-friendly name for showground. In 2001 when a ‘geoarchaeological the Hall Village Heritage assessment of the Halls Precinct was included in the Creek Aboriginal Sites ACT Heritage Register, Halls Zone’ recently undertaken Creek was recognised, due by two leading scientists – to the frequency of recorded Dr Philip Hughes and Dr Aboriginal stone artefacts, Marjorie Sullivan. continued on page 4 Out and aboutout . Greetings from the Easter Services at St Michael’s about ALPACAS FOR SALE new Anglican Priest Hello! I have already spent some time in Hall, including the last Christmas Eve service, but I will officially commence duties as the Priest for St Michael and All Angels Anglican Church at the 11am service on Sunday 31 March. 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This is School Museum and Heritage Centre applied exceptionally rewarding – to have bright young for a grant from ACT Heritage in May 2018, and (mainly) students wanting to come and work with was awarded a grant of $7,120 in October 2018. us, getting much more achieved than we would Fieldwork for the project took place in January otherwise, and to learn from them. this year, with help and advice from Aboriginal representatives, and the report was completed A taste of Brass by the end of February. Come and get a taste of brass on the grass – The researchers present a fascinating view of how Sunday 14 April at 1.00pm. To be graced again by Halls Creek evolved over the past 10,000 years – local bloke David Kilby. Food and drink will be from a shallow, marshy chain of ponds to the deeply available from around 12 noon for those who Richard and Amelia Southwell setting off from their family incised and mainly dry creek we know today – and want to grab a lunch. This annual event is the farm ‘Brooklands’ to Wattle Park Church. Apparently they point (in rather technical language!) to where in the major fund-raising activity for the museum; there went via Glenwood station and Church Lane. sediment profile Aboriginal cultural materials are will be a raffle and a bucket collection as usual. most likely to be found. New exhibition for Heritage ‘The swampy meadows and ponds along Halls Creek Festival were a very rich resource zone frequented by Aboriginal The brass concert will be preceded by people. Such areas are a regional focus of archaeological the opening of our latest exhibition – evidence of Aboriginal culture. They provided reliable ‘Selected Spaces’ – which will tell the water, game animals, plant foods, medicine, bark for stories of six district homesteads and construction and reeds to make string and baskets. The the pioneer families associated with camps occupied by Aboriginal people to make tools and them. Through photos, maps, plans and equipment, cook and process food and socialise, were on stories you will learn something of the drier and higher ground along the creek edge. family histories of the Shumacks of The combination of mature eucalypts, mature enough to ‘Springvale’, the Kilbys of ‘Lands End’, have cut bark slabs from, at least one visually-impressive the Southwells of ‘Brooklands’ and scarred tree, artefact scatters and artefact-bearing ‘Parkwood’, the Camerons and Gribbles sediments has created a cultural landscape that is of ‘Glebe Farm’, and the Hatches of rarely conserved in urban areas, making the Halls Creek ‘Rosewood’. The exhibition will be Aboriginal Sites Zone an important landscape area.’ opened at 11.00am on Sunday 14 April by Dr Barbara Dawson who some The project report has been sent to all the years ago authored a fascinating article stakeholders mentioned above and will be the about an imagined journey on the old subject of further presentations in the future. Weetangera Road. The exhibition takes Meanwhile the study has greatly enhanced us back down that road to meet some understanding of the early life of Halls Creek and Children of Robert and Mary Hatch (1888).