Patyegarang

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Patyegarang (* probably in the 1780s; † unknown), also called Patye for short , was an Aborigine from the Aboriginal tribe of the Eora . Patyegarang, whose name means Gray Kangaroo = Eastern Gray Giant Kangaroo , belonged to the Cadigal clan . Patyegarang enabled William Dawes , a lieutenant in the Royal Marines , to learn the Dharug language, write it down and develop a grammar. This language has died out and only exists in written form. There are currently attempts to teach and revitalize the language in Sydney's schools.

Life

Nothing is known about the early life of Patyegarang. The same applies to her life after Dawes had to leave the Australian convict colony , where he stayed for three years.

William Dawes had arrived in Sydney Harbor on January 26, 1788 with the First Fleet on board the HMS Sirius at the age of 26 . It is believed that Patyegarang was around 15 years old when Dawes met her and made her his servant and interpreter. Based on his written records, it is believed that she was also his mistress.

The then governor Arthur Phillip imagined that language acquisition could only succeed with the help of captured natives and their integration into the Australian penal colony. Therefore Phillip had the Aborigines Bennelong and Colebee captured and held. There was no success on this path.

William Dawes lived, not like the other Europeans in the first settlement in what is now Sydney, but in an observatory near the pylons to the south of what is now the Sydney Harbor Bridge . There he was given the task of building an observatory to observe a comet . Because of the remote location on the far opposite bank of Sydney, he had more intensive and frequent contacts with the local Aborigines. They avoided the large new branch. Dawes put his results in writing. Patyegarang helped him and was for the writer Thomas Keneally the "chieef language teacher, servant, and perhaps lover" ( German : "chief translator, servant and possibly beloved"). William Dawes, however, had differences with Arthur Phillip, mainly because he initially refused to participate in a punitive expedition against the Aborigines. This refusal, which he later corrected, led to the fact that he had to leave the colony with the first group of Royal Marines on December 18, 1791 on the HMS Gorgon . Therefore, his documents were no longer used in the colony.

Notebooks

The materials written by William Dawes and Patyegarang include three handwritten notebooks. William Marsden's (1754–1836) notebooks may have been presented in the library of Kings College London in 1835. From there, parts of the documents came to the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1916 . They were discovered by the librarian Phyllis Mander-Jones (1896-1984) at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies in 1972 while she was working there.

Aftermath

The internationally renowned Bangarra Dance Theater performed a choreography by Stephen Page called Patyegarang in 2014 . The writer Kate Grenville wrote the novella The Lieutenant , in which Patyegarang and William Dawes form the main characters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dhargug Dalang ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on dharug.dalang.com.au. Retrieved April 9, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dharug.dalang.com.au
  2. ↑ Thomas Keneally: Australians. Origins to Eureka . Volume 1. P. 166. Volume. Allen & Unwin (2009), ISBN 978-1-74175-069-0
  3. ↑ Governor Phillip , on skzut.com. Retrieved April 9, 2016
  4. ↑ About the Notebooks , at williamdawes.org. Retrieved April 9, 2016
  5. ↑ a b Teachers Resource Patyegarang ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on bangarra.com.au. Retrieved April 9, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bangarra.com.au
  6. ↑ Kate Grenville : The Lieutenant . Text Publishing (2009), ISBN 978-1-921351-78-5
personal data
SURNAME Patyegarang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Patye
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first Aborigine with whose help an Aboriginal language could be translated for the first time
DATE OF BIRTH around 1780
DATE OF DEATH 18th century or 19th century