Koorie Heritage Trust
Book, Black, Lindsay, The Bora Ground : being a continuation of a series on the customs of the Aborigines of the Darling River Valley and of Central New South Wales, 1944
... Arts -- Visual arts - General -- Carved and painted trees... -- Carved and painted trees -- Prehistory Early Culture Contact ...
... The incised trees at bora grounds have been seen when in use by keen observers... Besides recording the photographs taken in February, 1942, and diagrams of the Banaway Bora Ground, I have added numerous references and reports by explorers, early settlers and others who actually saw these bora grounds in use. The territory of the great Kamilaroi Nation was the centre of the teleteglyphs or incised trees at ceremonial grounds in the same way as the Wiradjuri Nation was for taphoglyphs or monumental trees and the Barkinji Nation for cylcons...
64 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.... The incised trees at bora grounds have been seen when in use by keen observers... Besides recording the photographs taken in February, 1942, and diagrams of the Banaway Bora Ground, I have added numerous references and reports by explorers, early settlers and others who actually saw these bora grounds in use. The territory of the great Kamilaroi Nation was the centre of the teleteglyphs or incised trees at ceremonial grounds in the same way as the Wiradjuri Nation was for taphoglyphs or monumental trees and the Barkinji Nation for cylcons...arts -- visual arts - general -- carved and painted trees -- prehistory, early culture contact and history -- activity and resource sites., other: bora ground
