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    The Gweagal shield is an Aboriginal Australian shield dropped by a Gweagal warrior opposing James Cook's landing party at Botany Bay on 29 April 1770....
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    The Gweagal (also spelt Gwiyagal) are a clan of the Dharawal people of Aboriginal Australians. Their descendants are traditional custodians of the southern...
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    Cooman was a Gweagal man identified by some of his descendants as the warrior who was shot and wounded by James Cook's landing party at Kamay (Botany...
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    for a variety of different occupations. Spears, clubs, boomerangs and shields were used generally as weapons for hunting and in warfare. Watercraft technology...
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    November 2002. Retrieved 3 May 2019. Daley, Paul (24 September 2016). "The Gweagal shield and the fight to change the British Museum's attitude to seized artefacts"...
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  • include the Koh-i-Noor, the Parthenon Marbles, the Benin Bronzes, the Gweagal shield, Tipu's Tiger and the Mokomokai. The series premiered November 1, 2022...
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    the return of Indigenous artefacts taken during Cook's voyages (see Gweagal shield). In July 2021, a statue of Cook in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada...
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    value to their people. Other examples include the Gweagal Shield, thought to be a very significant shield taken from Botany Bay in April 1770 or the Parthenon...
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    remains in various ways. Gweagal man Rodney Kelly and others have been working to achieve the repatriation of the Gweagal Shield and Spears from the British...
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  • 2016 to examine the provenance of the Gweagal Shield, the shield originating from the Aboriginal Australian Gweagal people of the Botany Bay area, believed...
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  • turn legitimises efforts for their re-patriation (see Elgin marbles, Gweagal shield, Easter island). Guha, Anne. "Guides: Art Law Research Guide: Introduction...
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    pink seashell" in the dialect of the area's Indigenous inhabitants, the Gweagal, who were a clan of the Tharawal (or Dharawal) tribe. They inhabited the...
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    Lieutenant James Cook landed at Botany Bay (Kamay) and encountered the Gweagal clan. Two Gweagal men opposed the landing party and one was shot and wounded. Cook...
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    that James Cook made first contact with an aboriginal tribe known as the Gweagal. His expedition became the first recorded Europeans to have encountered...
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    Lieutenant James Cook landed at Botany Bay (Kamay) and encountered the Gweagal clan. Two Gweagal men opposed the landing party and in the confrontation one of...
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  • struck him with little effect. Some shott was lodged into one of the men's shields and was taken back to England by Cook, where it remains in the British...
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    Island anglerfish is named after this island. At European contact the Gweagal and Kameygal Aboriginal groups were associated with Bare Island. It is...
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    now New South Wales, including the Wiradjuri, Gamilaray, Yuin, Ngarigo, Gweagal, and Ngiyampaa peoples. In 1770, James Cook charted the unmapped eastern...
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    Kurnell area were the northernmost clan of the Dharawal speakers, the Gweagal. On the northern headland the people were most likely Cadigal people of...
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