Welcome to our summer issue of Heritage NSW. The children in our cover
photograph this month were participating in a summer camp at La Perouse run
by the Aborigines Welfare Board in 1958. Here they camped in tents and
nissan huts, but the board was primarily involved with housing for
Aboriginal families. The heritage significance of historical types of
Aboriginal housing is a topical issue, and an article in this issue of
Heritage NSW seeks to provide some broad guidance on the types of housing
used by Aboriginal peoples over time.
In this issue we also look at the early estates of the Cumberland Plain and
Camden. A recent study has charted the surviving evidence of the colonial
landscape, discovering a surprising record of NSW's colonial heritage. This
is particularly interesting with the recent nomination for the State
Heritage Register of Brownlow Hill, originally the rural estate of the
Macleay family near Camden. Remarkably intact, with an outstanding scenic
landscape setting, Brownlow Hill features many rare surviving early
colonial features.
Cover: Traditional housing (mia-mia) from Milparinka, north-western NSW.
Photograph by Bill Elwood
Rock engraving, Mutawintji - this "pecked" type of rock art is mainly found
in Western NSW. Photograph by Vince Scarcella
These examples of hand stencils are from the NSW south coast. Photograph by
Vince Scarcella
Annual summer camp at La Perouse, Sydney, run by the Aborigines Welfare
Board, 1958. Photograph courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
.
