• Title
  Queen Gooseberry's rum mug, [183-?]
• Call number
  R 252
  Status: On loan term loan. The Rocks Discovery Museum.
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [183-?]
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  449209
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 mug - bronze - 9 cm. base diameter, 9 cm. height, 13 cm. height with handle extended, one hole near upper rim
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Cora Gooseberry (ca. 1777-1852), also known as 'Queen Gooseberry', was an Aboriginal woman, the daughter of Moorooboora (Maroubra), a leader of the Murro-ore-dial clan, south of Port Jackson, Sydney, and the wife of Bungaree, a prominent Kuringgai man who was designated ‘Chief of the Broken Bay Tribe’ by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. She was a well-known Sydney identity who, after the death of her husband in 1830, continued to participate in colonial life, attending events at Government House and providing information on Aboriginal culture and history.
  
  Reference:
  Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au (accessed 18 February 2020)
• Scope and Content
  Bronze mug, welded down one side and welded base, with semi-circular handle attached with pins to upper edge
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823693
  See Reminiscences of David Scott Mitchell by Fred Wymark at Am 121/2/1 p. 21 for Wymark's account of this mug.
• Date note
  
  Approximate date from period of greatest recognition by the colonists
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Gooseberry, Cora
  Mugs.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney, 1770-1850 - State Library of New South Wales (5 June - 13 August, 2006)
  Flesh & Blood: Family Connections in Sydney 1788-1998 - Museum of Sydney (November, 1998 - February, 1999)
  Look again ... re-interpreting Aboriginal history - State Library of New South Wales (July, 1993 - February, 1994)
  Stranger than fiction - State Library of New South Wales (November, 2009 - November, 2010)
  Macquarie the Governor, 1810 to 1821 - Macquarie Bank (May, 2012 - May, 2013)

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