Author: George HornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Deals mainly with Wonkonguru people to east of Lake Eyre.
Savage Life in Central Australia
Author: George HornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Deals mainly with Wonkonguru people to east of Lake Eyre.
The Bookman
Author: Wanderings in Wild Australia
Author: Baldwin SpencerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
V.1, pt.1; Geographical & binyurri), pointing bones & sticks, method of pointing, influence of magic love charms, Kurdaitcha, description of shoes; medicine men & sorcerers - method of graduation; Alchera beliefs & the cult of ritual objects, sacred objects of Urabunna, Luritcha & Arunta, Kaitish, Warramunga, stone & wooden ritual objects, sacred totemic beliefs, tradition dealing with Achilpa, or Wild Cat totem - ancestral route given with native place; names, map of totemic topography, meaning of designs on ritual objects; Engwura ceremony, 1895, plan of ceremonial ground, detailed account of totemic ceremonies, part enacted by women; camp at Charlotte Waters - rain making ceremony described, words of song; stone arrangement Finke valley, mythological background; rock drawings at Ooraminna; sun, witchetty grub & eagle hawk ceremonies performed; avenging expedition (Atinga); Barrow Creek, Kaitisha & Unmatchera people; history of the massacre in 1874; history of ancestor of rain man, grass seed totem ceremony, body decoration belief about the comet; myth explaining tooth avulsion, method of operation, magic; charm made of human hair & owl feathers carried by avenging parties; Tennant Creek - Warramunga; physical appearance, hair depilation; camp life; wearing womans headdress by men to cure headache, tooth avulsion operation, tooth afterwards ground & eaten by mother (if a girls tooth) & eaten by mother in law (if mans); Gammona relationship among Warramunga; ceremonies connected with hair; ban of silence, use of gesture language - 47 signs illustrated with meaning; details of fire ceremony.
A Long Life's Work
Author: Archibald GeikiePublisher: London : Macmillan and Company, limited
ISBN:
Category : Geikie, Archibald, 1835-1924
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Rockshelter Excavations in the East Hamersley Range, Pilbara Region, Western Australia
Author: Dawn CropperPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784919772
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This volume offers a detailed study of six exceptional rockshelter sites from the inland Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Consisting of 18 chapters, it is rich with colour photographs, illustrations, and figures, including high-resolution images of the rockshelter sites, excavations, stratigraphic sections, cultural features, and artefacts.
Cumulative Book Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Our Heart Is the Land
Author: Bruce ShawPublisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
ISBN: 0855755695
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This collection of Aboriginal life histories provides a glimpse of a world about which little has been published previously. Focusing on themes such as religious life, living off the land, Dreamings and missions and using the voices of men and women living in and around the Lake Eyre Basin today, Shaw recorded a history of oppression and deprivation, disease and exploitation, but also celebrates the survival of a rich culture, and the growth of political awareness and community self management.
The Nation and the Athenaeum
Author: The Nation and Athenæum
Author: The Makers and Making Of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections
Author: Nicolas PetersonPublisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522859895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
This volume of original essays brings together, for the first time, histories of the making and of the makers of most of the major Indigenous Australian museum collections. These collections are a principal source of information on how Aboriginal people lived in the past. Knowing the context in which any collection was created; the intellectual frameworks within which the collectors were working, their collecting practices, what they failed to collect, and what Aboriginal people withheld; is vital to understanding how any collection relates to the Aboriginal society from which it was derived. Once made, collections have had mixed fates: some have become the jewel of a museum's holdings, while others have been divided and dispersed across the world, or retained but neglected. The essays in this volume raise issues about representation, institutional policies, the periodisation of collecting, intellectual history, material culture studies, Aboriginal culture and the idea of a 'collection'.