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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Coastal Sydney: Journal kept on board the Sirius during a voyage to New South Wales, 1787-91.
Kangaroo and grass tree, c 1857
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Record of the many different Aboriginal names used to name 'kangaroo', ca. 1857.
Endeavour journal, July 1770 entry by Joseph Banks
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Record of the interactions of James Cook’s ship with the Guugu Yimidhirr people.
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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Coastal Sydney - an account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty, 1773.
View from Kiarabilli.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
This record of the first Russian expedition to the Antarctic includes a lithographic print of the view from Kiarabilli (Kirribilli) on the north shore of Warran (Sydney Cove). It shows Tar-ra (Dawes Point) on the southern shore at the far right.
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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
This manuscript includes words and short phrases recorded from a young woman named Patyegarang, who helped him to understand her people’s language. 
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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
This notebook shows recordings of Sydney language, in the neighbourhood of Sydney, 1788-1791.
Bungaree at Kiarabilli (Kirribilli), 1831
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages, Arts, Objects & Technology
Summary: 
Bungaree, a Kuringgai man from what is now known as the Broken Bay area of New South Wales, is thought to have shared some of his people’s vocabulary with William Dawes.
Turuwul.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Early linguists and ethnologists sought out John (Johnny) Malone (c 1820–1880) and his wife Lizzie (c 1830–1901), later Golden, as language and cultural knowledge holders. 
John Malone Wordlist copy.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Samples of sentences and stories in the Sydney language, provided by Johnny and Lizzie to anthropologists.
Botany
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
This map shows that Dharawal people have been living in and around Gamay (Botany Bay) for tens of thousands of years.
Johnny Malone.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Photo of linguists and ethnologists Johnny Malone, 1850-1875.