corroborees

We pass Spectacle Island, one of the waterway's many nature reserves -- so named, our skipper tells us, because early Aboriginal meetings there (called "corroborees") were said to be a spectacle to European settlers.

Sydney 2009

Instead of dancing at the great "corroborees," or religious ballets of his people, he would "sit out" with a girl whose sad, romantic history became fatally interwoven with his own.

In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878

The old Fraser Island aboriginals told me that the deep blue lake, two miles from the White Cliffs, was once a level plateau, on which their fathers held fights and corroborees, and that it sank in one night.

Kangaroo 2004

Billy Too-gal never actually said; but the old men had so vividly interpreted his gestures that the younger, in their love of movement and display, in time embodied them as one of the most frequent themes of their corroborees.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

For three days he dwelt in the good land with content, lionised by his relatives, taking part in the hunts, the feasts, the corroborees, and being urged never to return to the camp of floods and hunger.

My Tropic Isle 2003

All day long they sang, danced, and laughed; they held orgies (in honour of the Colonel) and _corroborees_ of the kind described by _de Rougemont_ -- the Washington of France.

The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

The same remark applies to the Russian Ballet; the Yugo-Slav handbell-ringers; the vegetarian Indian-club swingers from the Karakoram Himalayas; the polyphonic gong-players from North Borneo; the synthetic quarter-tone quartette from San Domingo; the anthropophagous back-chat comedians from the Solomon Islands; not to mention a host of other interesting companies, troupes, corroborees and pow-wows which are now in our midst for the purpose of cementing the confraternity of nations.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11 Various

We have read stories of savage chiefs converted by Christian or Buddhist missionaries, who within a year or so have turned from drunken corroborees and bloody witch-smellings to a life that is not only godly but even philanthropic and statesmanlike.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

This took some time, but whilst I was doing it Yamba got ready the necessary charcoal sticks and pigments such as the blacks decorate themselves with at corroborees.

Adventures of Louis de Rougemont Fitzgerald, F Scott 1899

And yet at big corroborees on the occasion of a marriage, the men always chanted praises to the virtue and beauty of the bride!

Adventures of Louis de Rougemont Fitzgerald, F Scott 1899