Threlkeld wrote ‘from which the Blacks obtain the ko-pur-ra (kuparr), a yellowish earth which they wet, mould up into balls, and then burn them in a strong fire, in which it changes to a brilliant red, something like red ochre, with which the kidney fat of the kangaroo, used always at their dances'.
Threlkeld wrote: “where the stone called ko-na-ko-na (kunakuna) is found. There are veins in the stone which contain a yellow substance, used for paint in warlike expeditions. The name of the a large mountain, the north extremity of Lake Macquarie.
Place name. Threlkeld wrote ‘a small volcano on the sea coast, near Red Head: seven or eight miles south of Newcastle, and five or six miles NE of Lake Macquarie.’
Threlkeld wrote “name of a place in which there is a forest of petrifactions of wood of various sizes, extremely well defined; situated in a bay at the NW extremity of Lake Macquarie. Associated with a creation story
