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In a corner on the Macintyre
In a corner on the Macintyre (Thunderbolt in an encounter with police at Paradise Creek) is a 1895 painting by the Australian artist Tom Roberts. The painting is thought to depict the bushranger Captain Thunderbolt in a shootout with police.
Roberts painted the picture while staying at "Newstead", a station near Inverell, New South Wales, where he also painted his other significant bushranging work "Bailed up".
The painting was acquired by the National Gallery of Australia in 1971.
lands as extending over some , on the northern side of the Gwydir River from Moree to Bingara. It took in Yallaroi, and their northernmost extension ran to Warialda and Gilgil Creek, and from Inverell to north of Wallangra on the Macintyre River. Their western frontier was at Garah.
Mythology and social rite of initiation.
In one early report by the Reverend Greenway, the Weraerai were said to share much mythology with the Gamilaraay. Using European analogies, he described their supreme god as Baiame, creator of the "