Burigon

Alongside his tribe, Burigon entertained Governor Macquarie with a corroboree at the site of the Newcastle Government House.

[1][2][3][4] Under the patronage of Commandant James Wallis, who was in charge of the British colonial post of Newcastle from 1816 to 1818, the convict artist Joseph Lycett painted at least 14 scenes of traditional practices of the Awabakal people.

This close relationship of Burigon and Wallis was instrumental in gaining access for the artist Joseph Lycett to visually document the life of the Awabakal people.

[5] Burigon re-named his eldest son Wallis after the Commandant, and allowed him to be taken to the Parramatta Native Institution to be educated in the British manner.

[6] Burigon died October 27, 1820; he was fatally wounded at Newcastle when attempting to apprehend an escaped convict named John Kirby.