Eddie kneebone biography
Eddie kneebone biography
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Bangerang man, artist and educator, Eddie ‘Kookaburra’ Kneebone, was born in Melbourne at the Royal Women’s Hospital in 1947. He was the eldest of fourteen children, having eight sisters and five brothers.
As a young boy Eddie lived with his family at Orbost on the Snowy River where his parents worked as share farmers on a dairy property.
Within the Bangerang nation, Eddie’s extended family group was the Thooloolagong of the Ulupna Island area, in what is now the Barmah National Park.
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The Thooloolagong were known as the Kookaburra people and it was for this reason that Eddie’s totem was the kookaburra and he often signed his name Eddie ‘Kookaburra’ Kneebone.
Eddie’s family travelled around a lot when he was young.
When they came to Melbourne in 1952, Eddie began school at the Fitzroy State School, then attended Bellfield School at Heidelberg, before the family moved to Kinglake. Times were tough for the family and Eddie left school at age 13 with limited reading and writing skills