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1905

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Yarrabah – Football – Yarrabah – 1905

Report on Bishop Frodsham's vist to Yarrabah (around August 1905): “In the afternoon, an exciting football match took place among the young men. Very fine specimens of manhood they looked, many of them bearing the remains of their savage state in the shape of gashes made across their body and filled with earth – a ceremony necessary to admit them to a place in the fighting line when engaged in tribal warfare.” Source: Northern Churchman, 7 September 1905, p. 9.