COPYRIGHT NOTICE FedUni ResearchOnline http://researchonline.federation.edu.au This is the published version of: Clark, I. (2015) 'A peep at the Blacks': A history of tourism at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, 1863-1924. Warsaw: De Gruyter Open. Copyright © 2015 Clark. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc-nd/3.0/), which permits restricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. Commercial use is not permitted and modified material cannot be distributed. Ian D. Clark ‘A peep at the Blacks’: A History of Tourism at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, 1863–1924 Brought to you by | Federation University Australia/FedUni Authenticated Download Date | 5/25/16 4:59 AM Brought to you by | Federation University Australia/FedUni Authenticated Download Date | 5/25/16 4:59 AM Ian D. Clark ‘A peep at the Blacks’ A History of Tourism at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, 1863–1924 Managing Editor: Jan Barabach Associate Editor: Lucrezia Lopez Brought to you by | Federation University Australia/FedUni Authenticated Download Date | 5/25/16 4:59 AM Published by De Gruyter Open Ltd, Warsaw/Berlin Part of Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 license, which means that the text may be used for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/. © 2015 Ian D. Clark ISBN: 978-3-11-046823-6 e-ISBN: 978-3-11-046824-3 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The Deutsche National- bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. Managing Editor: Jan Barabach Associate Editor: Lucrezia Lopez www.degruyteropen.com Cover illustration: © Melton Prior Brought to you by | Federation University Australia/FedUni Authenticated Download Date | 5/25/16 4:59 AM Contents Abbreviations ix Metric Conversions x Acknowledgements xi Note to Readers xii 1 Aboriginal Mission Tourism in Nineteenth Century Victoria 1 1.1 Aboriginal Mission Tourism in Colonial Victoria: an Overview 1 1.2 Methodology and Sources 10 1.3 Histories of Coranderrk 12 1.4 Studies of Tourism at Coranderrk 12 1.5 Coranderrk Aboriginal Station – a Brief History 14 1.6 About This Book 28 Select References 28 2 Tourism at Coranderrk 31 2.1 Tarra Bobby, the Brataualung, and Acheron Station, April 1860 32 2.2 Rev. Robert Hamilton’s Impressions of Coranderrk, August 1864 33 2.3 Making progress at Coranderrk 1865 34 2.4 1866 Intercolonial Exhibition 35 2.5 The Northern Wathawurrung Visit the ‘Blackfellow’s Township’, March 1866 36 2.6 Daniel Matthews, May 1866 37 2.7 Joseph Shaw’s Visit to Coranderrk, 1868 39 2.8 Sale of Coranderrk Baskets in Melbourne 39 2.9 R.H. Otter, 1872 40 2.10 James Whitelaw Craig, March 1875 41 2.11 Healesville in the 1880s 43 2.12 Hawkers at Coranderrk 47 2.13 Garnet Walch’s Request for Information: ‘Visitors Not Refused But Not Invited’ 48 2.14 Massina’s 1888 Visitor Guide 49 2.15 Healesville in the Early 1900s 50 2.16 Elinor Clowes and Coranderrk 53 2.17 Officers from the American Fleet 1908 54 2.18 The Gift of Boomerangs, October 1909 54 2.19 The Companion Guide to Healesville 55 2.20 Raffia Work, 1909 56 2.21 South African Cricket Team, February 1911 57 Brought to you by | Federation University Australia/FedUni Authenticated Download Date | 5/25/16 4:59 AM 2.22 Temptations in the Tourist Resort of Healesville, 1911 59 2.23 Healesville Shire Council: Coranderrk ‘Will Ruin Healesville as a Tourist Resort’ 59 2.24 Rev. Frederic Chambers Spurr – Impressions and Experiences of Coranderrk 59 2.25 Communal Sharing of Blankets, 1919 60 2.26 Tourism in the 1920s – Before the Closure of Coranderrk 61 2.27 Mrs Aeneas Gunn, Coranderrk, and John Terrick 61 2.28 Dame Nellie Melba and Coranderrk 63 2.29 Lanky Manton and Alick Mullett at the VFL Preliminary Final, October 1921 64 2.30 Agnes (Annie) Edwards Visits Coranderrk, January 1923 64 Select References 65 Appendix 2.1 Spurr’s (1915) Reminiscences of Coranderrk 67 3 Researchers and Coranderrk 71 3.1 Enrico Hillyer Giglioli, May 1867 71 3.2 Henry Nottidge Moseley, March 1874 73 3.3 Désiré Charnay, November 1878 75 3.4 Rev. John Mathew, January 1909 80 3.5 L.W.G. Büchner, May 1912 81 3.6 Professor Felix Ritter von Luschan, 1914 84 3.7 J.M. Provan’s Views on the Research Value of Retaining Coranderrk, 1921 88 Select References 88 Appendix 3.1: Giglioli’s (1876) Account of his 1867 Visit to Coranderrk 90 Appendix 3.2 Moseley’s (1892) Account of his 1874 Visit to Coranderrk 93 Appendix 3.3 Désiré Charnay’s (1881) Report of His 1878 Visit to Coranderrk 95 Appendix 3.4 Désiré Charnay’s (1880) Account of His November 1878 Visit to Coranderrk 98 4 International Dignitaries and Their Impressions of Coranderrk 108 4.1 Sir William Henry Gregory, Former Governor of Ceylon, February 1877 108 4.2 James Anthony Froude, February 1885 109 4.3 The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, Viscount Tarbat, November 1886 111 4.4 Lady Brassey, June 1887 113 4.5 Lord Brassey and family, October 1897 115 Brought to you by | Federation University Australia/FedUni Authenticated Download Date | 5/25/16 4:59 AM 4.6 Officers from the Italian warship Puglia, September 1901 118 4.7 Dr Henry Lowther Clarke, Anglican Bishop of Melbourne, September 1904 118 4.8 Sir Reginald Arthur James Talbot, Victorian Governor, October 1904 119 4.9 Alfred Hugh Fisher, Visual Instruction Committee of the Colonial Office, June 1910 119 4.10 Lord and Lady Denman, March 1912, April 1913 125 4.11 Sir Arthur Lyulph Stanley, Victorian Governor, April 1919 127 4.12 Sailors From H.M.S. Renown, May 1920 128 4.13 Lord Northcliffe, September 1921 128 4.14 The British Squadron and Members of the Methodist Church, March 1924 131 Select References 132 5 Journalists and Correspondents and Coranderrk 133 5.1 An Easter Trip to Mount Juliet, April 1864 133 5.2 With ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ on the Upper Yarra, July 1866 133 5.3 Notes of a Trip to the Black Spur, March 1868 135 5.4 A Week on the Yarra Track by “Beppo”, January 1874 136 5.5 ‘Our Sable Brethren Live in Semi-civilized Comfort’, November 1874 136 5.6 Coranderrk – ‘Well Worth a Visit, But Go On a Week Day’, January 1875 137 5.7 Cricket at Coranderrk, April 1876 138 5.8 ‘Under the Impression that Coranderrk Belongs to Them’, September 1876 138 5.9 John Stanley James, aka ‘The Vagabond’, and Coranderrk 139 5.9.1 ‘A Peep at the Blacks’: The Vagabond’s First Visit to Coranderrk, March 1877 141 5.9.2 A Second Visit from ‘The Vagabond’, May 1885 144 5.9.3 The Vagabond’s 1893 Visit to Coranderrk 145 5.10 ‘Melbournensis’, Yering, and the Black Spur, January 1881 148 5.11 Melton Prior and Coranderrk, January 1888 148 5.12 A Cricket Match: Coranderrk versus St John’s Cricket Club, November 1892 152 5.13 A Camping Holiday on the Coranderrk Creek, January 1894 154 5.14 ‘Amongst the Black Fellows’ by J.D.C., November 1911 155 5.15 A Picnic at Coranderrk, March 1914 156 5.16 ‘How Would You Like To Be Forced to Move to Germany?’ January 1918 157 Select References 160 Brought to you by | Federation University Australia/FedUni Authenticated Download Date | 5/25/16 4:59 AM 6 William Barak and Coranderrk Tourism 162 6.1 Oscar Comettant, 1888 166 6.2 Arthur Baessler, 1892 168 6.3 R.H. Mathews, 1903 170 6.4 M.L. Hutchinson, 1903 171 6.5 Sister Agnes (Agnes Row), 1911 171 Select References 173 Appendix 6.1 Oscar Comettant’s Entry on William Barak 174 Appendix 6.2 Arthur Baessler’s Chapter on William Barak 179 7 Coranderrk, Photographs and Tourist Postcards 186 7.1 Nicholas Caire 190 7.2 James Ricalton, Underwood & Underwood Photographer, 1908 194 7.3 Healesville photographers: Ernest Samuel Fysh and J. & O.H. Kercheval 198 7.4 Weddings at Coranderrk 202 7.4.1 Five Weddings at Coranderrk in the Same Ceremony, April 1868 204 7.4.2 Hugh McRae and Lizzie Hamilton Wedding, 2 August 1909 206 7.4.3 Willie Russell and Julia Sherwin, March 1910 207 7.4.4 John Terrick – Ellen Darby Wedding, 7 July 1910 207 7.4.5 Alick Mullett and Violet Manton Wedding, October 1910 209 7.4.6 William Logan and Priscilla Johnson Wedding, 18 July 1917 211 7.5 A Congregational Minister Visits Coranderrk, September 1917 211 Select References 214 8 Tourism at Coranderrk After Its Closure In 1924 215 8.1 The Closure of Coranderrk, February 1924 215 8.2 Frank Latimer and Henry F. Sennett, Art Exhibition October 1924 216 8.3 Six residents remain at Coranderrk, June 1925 218 8.4 The Mantons move to Lake Tyers, December 1927 218 8.5 Meeting Mrs Dunolly, August 1930 219 8.6 Conclusion 221 Select References 222 Appendix 8.1 Portraits of Coranderrk Station Managers and Their Families 222 Select References 259 Index 261 Brought to you by | Federation University Australia/FedUni Authenticated Download Date | 5/25/16 4:59 AM Metric Conversions Throughout this study weights and measures have been expressed in contemporary terms: imperial before 1970 and metric thereafter.