Nanbari

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Nánbree
English JS Main: 
Nanbari
English: 
The drawing is inscribed at bottom centre in pencil "NANBREE." The drawing is signed in pencil at lower right "T. Watling delt.", but is undated. Nanberry was adopted at the age of 9 or 10 by John White, the surgeon-general to the colony, in April-May 1789, after his family died in the smallpox epidemic of that time. (ref. Smith, Keith Vincent. Bennelong: the Coming in of the Eora, Sydney Cove, 1788-1792. East Roseville NSW, Kangaroo Press, 2001.) The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.N‡nbree
Category: 
name of person
Source: 
Smith & Wheeler
Page: 
64
Line: 
58
Respelt: 
Nan-bari
Part of speech: 
noun
Meaning Clue: 
‘Nââmbžrra’: nambara = ‘Jibong’: French Catalogue, 1855 [11:115] [SOUTH] "Gnanabarrai" nganabarayi = "Bill of the Parrakeet" beak [black-having]: Brown, Rbt: Georges R [:260.1:56] [DG]
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 34: Looks about 9, seen carrying a 4-pronged fish-gig