Aboriginal bark canoes of the Murray Valley / [by] Robert Edwards
- Bib ID:
- 447355
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Edwards, Robert, 1930-2023
- Description:
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- Adelaide : Rigby for the South Australian Museum, 1972
- 80p. : ill., maps, col.plates ; 25cm.
- ISBN:
- 0851794122
- Summary:
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Describes Aboriginal canoes & their manufacture, use in fishing, method of paddling, canoe dance, myth of Nurundere & his canoe, choice of wood, method of removing bark, use of Aboriginal canoes by early settlers, transition to European boats; South Australian Museum survey of canoe trees.
- Notes:
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- Index.
- Bibliography: p.73-74.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians. Bark canoes. Australia. Murray River region
- Aboriginal Australians -- Murray River Region (N.S.W.-S.A.) -- Boats
- Fishing
- Yaraldi / Yaralde people (S8) (SA SI54-13)
- Transport - Water - Canoes
- Stories and motifs - Rivers
- Ngarrindjeri / Narrinjeri people (S69) (SA SI54-13)
- Sites - Scarred trees - Canoe trees
- Chowilla (SE SA SI54-06)
- Raukkan / Point McLeay (SE SA SI54-13)
- Mannum (SE SA SI54-09)
- Southwest New South Wales (SW NSW SI54, SI55)
- South East South Australia (SE SA SI54, SJ54)
- Lake Alexandrina / Lake Albert (SE SA SI54-13)
- Moorundie (SE SA SI54-10)
- River Murray (SW NSW, N Vic, SE SA SI54, SI55)
- North West Victoria (NW Vic SI55)
- Other authors/contributors:
- South Australian Museum
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1815
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1799
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