• Title
  Number of Blankets served out to Aborigines at Bathurst, 1867-1888
• Call number
  A 3016
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1867-1888
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  446751
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : 2012
  
• Physical Description
  1 volume - 0.02 Meters
  Textual Records - (manuscript)
  
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2012/D15244/a1344.html
• General note
  
  A 3016 was copied onto preservation microfilm, July 1997. - CY 3688, frames 1 - 23
  Governor Macquarie initiated the distribution of blankets to Aborginal people at the first Parramatta Feast in December 1814. These blankets were to replace the traditional animal skin cloaks usually worn. To account for expenditure, Government officials created what are called "Blanket lists" which often included details of people's English name, Native name, Probably age, Number of wives, Children, Tribe, and District of Usual Resort (Indigenous Services Librarian, Mitchell Library, 2005).
  See article 'How a 150-year-old blanket can help settle a native title claim', Sydney Morning Herald, 13 September 2005, p.14.
  Original volume copied onto preservation microfilm, July 1997, and included as item 21 on the 1997 'Select List of Records on Microfilm: Australian Aboriginal Peoples' (150 items), available for purchase from the Mitchell Library.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823569
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  rugs (blankets)
  
• Place
  Bathurst (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3317217

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