Tree Curtains for Australia Day at Old Govt House. Parramatta. 1791 #Patyegarang aged 15 was the lead instructor to Lt William Dawes’ transcriptions of the “Aboriginal Languages if Sydney”. . from Ross Gibson ‘Patyegarang and William Dawes: the Space of Imagination’ - “In January 1788 Lieutenant William Dawes came to Botany Bay, on Australia’s southeastern coast, with the First Fleet Marines. Lately he has loomed into contemporary awareness in Australia. This emergence has occurred after he had just about disappeared from accounts having completed his four-year Sydney sojourn in December 1791. For almost two hundred years Dawes missed out on close historical attention because his papers and effects had been assumed destroyed in family disputes and by a hurricane in Antigua during the nineteenth century. But in 1972 his two ‘language notebooks’ were discovered at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.1 Amounting to eighty small pages of spacious handwriting, the notebooks are a vital trace of the first four years of British colonisation in Australia, and since their retrieval growing numbers of scholars have been appreciating not only the timbre of Dawes’ intellect but equally the boldness and wit of the Indigenous people with whom he conversed.” . https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230277946_16 #treecurtains #invasionday #rumrebellionday #ambientart #graphicdesign #livingheritage #blackshale #parramattapool #lakeparramatta #littlecoogee #smallbirdhabitat #banner #figtree #oldgovernmenthouse #parramatta #nofilter #parrapark (at Australia Day Parramatta) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7siTq6HsM-/?igshid=l90pqyibsadz