Coleby

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Colebee
English JS Main: 
Coleby
English: 
"Colebee, when a Moobee, after Balloderrees Burial". A Moobee was one of the chief mourners at an Aboriginal funeral (see R.J. Lampert in Wheeler and Smith (eds.), 1988 p.39). Balloderree (also known as Balloderry or Ballooderry) was buried on 17th December 1791 (ref Smith, K.V. Bennelong: the coming in of the Eora , Kangaroo Press Sydney, 2001, p.124). This drawing appears to have been paired with Watling drawing number 66, a portrait of Colbee's wife Dorringa. The drawing is unsigned and undated. The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category: 
name of person
Source: 
Smith & Wheeler
Page: 
30
Line: 
13
Respelt: 
gulbi
Part of speech: 
noun
Source Details: 
Smith, Bernard and Wheeler, Alwyne, 1988. The Art of the First Fleet & other early Australian Drawings. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven amd London, in association with the Australian Academy for the Humanitioes and the British Museum (Natural History). 256 pp. -------------
Comment: 
Watling 67: a moobee after Balloderrees funeral