Goods taken from huts in the Mount Deception area, October 1870

Date: 1 Oct 1870
Place: Mount Deception region
Police Trooper Gregory reports that five huts have been robbed in the Mount Deception region by 'Lake Hope’ Aboriginal people en route to the ochre fields at Parachilna.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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  • Goods taken from huts in the Mount Deception area, October 1870
    1 Oct 1870 — Mount Deception region
    Police Trooper Gregory reports that five huts have been robbed in the Mount Deception region by 'Lake Hope’ Aboriginal people en route to the ochre fields at Parachilna.
    (See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
    Source: Robert Foster, Skye Krichauff and Amanda Nettelbeck, The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2024, http://ua.edu.au/south-australian-frontier