Ginninderry Development Project Aboriginal Cultural Values Assessment Report Redacted Version for Public Release Riverview Projects (ACT) • v.3 • May 2017 WATERS CONSULTANCY PTY LTD ACN 134 852 314 PHONE 02 9810 6474 EMAIL [email protected] ADDRESS 356 Darling Street • Balmain NSW 2041 HISTORY • CULTURE • HERITAGE Table of Contents Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................. 3 1 Distribution of this report ........................................................................................................................... 6 2 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 7 3 The Project ................................................................................................................................................ 7 4 Consultation Methodology ........................................................................................................................ 9 5 Consultation Process .................................................................................................................................. 9 6 Previous Historical and Cultural Assessment ............................................................................................ 10 7 What is Cultural Significance? .................................................................................................................. 10 8 Overview of Findings and Recommendations .......................................................................................... 11 8.1 Overarching Recommendations ........................................................................................................ 13 8.2 Site Specific Recommendations ........................................................................................................ 14 9 Historical Context .................................................................................................................................... 16 10 The Cultural Landscape ............................................................................................................................ 78 10.1 The Ginninderra Cultural Landscape ................................................................................................ 79 11 Management of the Cultural Landscape ................................................................................................... 86 12 Cultural Significance Assessment: Places 1 – 8 ......................................................................................... 88 12.1 Ceremonial Area (Place 1) ................................................................................................................ 90 12.2 Corroboree Ground (Place 2) ........................................................................................................... 92 12.3 Women’s Business Hill & Ancestral Figure (Place 3) ......................................................................... 94 12.4 Eaglehawk Ancestral Figure (Place 4) .............................................................................................. 96 12.5 Resource Area (Place 5) ................................................................................................................... 98 12.6 Fish Trap Resource Area (Place 6) ................................................................................................... 99 12.7 Ancestral Figure & Women’s Story Site (Place 7) ........................................................................... 100 12.8 Ginninderra Creek & Murrumbidgee Pathways (Place 8) ............................................................... 102 13 Sources .................................................................................................................................................. 103 14 Appendix A: Start Up Letter to RAPs and RAOs ...................................................................................... 111 15 Appendix B: Consultation on Draft Report ............................................................................................. 116 16 Endnotes ............................................................................................................................................... 120 Tables Table 1: Summary of Significance of Identified Cultural Places ....................................................................... 12 Table 2: Recommended Site Specific Actions ................................................................................................. 14 Table 3: Responses to Draft Report ................................................................................................................ 117 Figures Figure 1: Ginninderry Project Area. ................................................................................................................... 8 Figure 2: Key to Cultural Places 1-7 ................................................................................................................. 89 Figure 3: Ceremonial Area (Place 1) ................................................................................................................ 90 Waters Consultancy Pty Ltd PAGE 3 HISTORY • CULTURE • HERITAGE Figure 4: Corroboree Ground (Place 2) ............................................................................................................ 92 Figure 5: Women’s Business Hill & Ancestral Figure (Place 3) .......................................................................... 94 Figure 6: Eaglehawk Ancestral Figure (Place 4). .............................................................................................. 96 Figure 7: Resource Area (Place 5). ................................................................................................................... 98 Figure 8: Fish Trap Resource Area (Place 6). ................................................................................................... 99 Figure 9: Ancestral Figure & Women’s Story Site (Place 7). ........................................................................... 100 Figure 10: Ginninderra Creek & Murrumbidgee River Pathways (Place 8). ..................................................... 102 Maps Map 1: Regional Map ...................................................................................................................................... 18 Map 2: North western Canberra including suburbs of Palmerston, Crace and Nicholls. ................................... 19 Map 3: Excerpt from Captain Currie's Map, c.1823. ......................................................................................... 21 Map 4: Excerpt from Hamilton Hume's sketch map c.1826. ............................................................................ 22 Map 5: Excerpt from County of Murray map, 1843-46. .................................................................................... 28 Map 6: Excerpt from County of Murray map, 1888. ......................................................................................... 29 Images Image 1: South end of Lake George, 1830, Robert Hoddle. ............................................................................. 17 Image 2: ‘Murrumbidgee River’, c.1829, Robert Hoddle. ................................................................................. 23 Image 3: 'Ginninginderry Plains', c.1832-35, Robert Hoddle ............................................................................. 24 Image 4: ‘Ginninginderry Plains’, c.1835, Robert Hoddle. ................................................................................ 25 Image 5: ‘Ginninginninderry Water Fall’, 1835, Robert Hoddle. ....................................................................... 31 Image 6: ‘The Ginindarra Creek, looking to Murrumbidgee hills’, 1875, C.F. Gordon Cumming. ...................... 32 Image 7: Ginninderra Falls, c.1890s. ................................................................................................................ 33 Image 8: De Salis children having a picnic at Ginninderry Falls', c.1893. .......................................................... 34 Image 9: De Salis family shooting party, Ginninderry Falls, c.1900 .................................................................. 34 Image 10: De Salis family at Ginninderry Falls, c.1900. .................................................................................... 34 Image 11: Children at Cuppacumbalong Station c.1893. .................................................................................. 35 Image 12: Aboriginal woman domestic worker, c.1887, ACT. .......................................................................... 39 Image 13: ‘Aboriginal Station Brungle’, c.1898. ............................................................................................... 42 Image 14: Trees, Ginninderra Creek ................................................................................................................ 44 Image 15: 'Warryne, a young Aboriginal man from Yass District’, c.1892 ......................................................... 47 Image 16: 'Warryne holding a booomerang', c.1890. ....................................................................................... 48 Image 17: Boomerangs, c.1832, George Bennett. ...........................................................................................