Burial ceremonies and disposal of the dead / by Walter E. Roth
- Bib ID:
- 128792
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Roth, Walter Edmund, 1861?-1933
- Description:
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- Sydney : By order of the Trustees, 1907
- [365]-403, [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Series:
- North Queensland ethnography: bulletin ; no. 9.
- Summary:
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Covers Pennefather, Mitchell, Nassau, Staaten River areas, Princess Charlotte Bay, Cape Bedford, Bloomfield, Tully, Russell River, Burke, Cloncurry, Upper Georgina River, Rockhampton, Keppel Island, Brisbane; deals with burial, cannibalism, inquests, divination for vengeance; mourning, cremation, tree-platform burial, notes on mummification; plastering of head and cutting skin of mourners; mutilation & skinning of corpse; account of disposal of the dead by Koko-Yimidir woman (with literal & free translation)
- Notes:
- "From Records of the Australian Museum, vol. vi, part 5."
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Mortuary customs
- Feuds and warfare - Avenging
- Death - Human remains - Mummies
- Guugu Yimidhirr / Gugu Yimithirr / Kuku Yimidhirr people (Y82) (Qld SD55-13)
- Ayerrerenge / Yuruwinga people (G12) (NT SF54-05)
- Nggerigudi / Yupngayth people (Y19) (Qld SD54-03)
- Mayi-Thakurti / Mitakoodi people (G16) (Qld SF54-02)
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Body - Decoration - Body modification
- Kalkatungu / Kalkadoon language (G13) (Qld SF54-02)
- Death - Inquests
- Kalkatungu / Kalkadoon people (G13) (Qld SF54-02)
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies - Tree and platform burial
- Darumbal language (E46) (Qld SF56-13)
- Mayi-Thakurti / Mitakoodi language (G16) (Qld SF54-02)
- Cannibalism
- Darumbal people (E46) (Qld SF56-13)
- Death - Mourning
- Nggerigudi / Yupngayth language (Y19) (Qld SD54-03)
- Magic and sorcery - Divination
- Ayerrerenge / Yuruwinga language (G12) (NT SF54-05)
- Guugu Yimidhirr / Gugu Yimithirr / Kuku Yimidhirr language (Y82) (Qld SD55-13)
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies - Cremation
- Language - Texts and translations - Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal language
- Princess Charlotte Bay (Qld SE Cape York SD54-12, SD55-09)
- Rockhampton (E Qld SF56-13)
- Cape Bedford (Qld SE Cape York SD55-13)
- Georgina River (Qld Far West SF54)
- Brisbane (SE Qld SG56-15)
- Cloncurry (Qld Far NW SF54-02)
- Mitchell River (Qld NW Cape York SD54, SE54, SE55)
- Keppel Islands (E Qld SF56-13)
- Pennefather River (Qld NW Cape York SD54-03)
- Staaten River (Qld Gulf SE54-03, SE54-04)
- Wujal Wujal / Bloomfield River (Qld SE Cape York SD55-13)
- Russell River (NE Qld SE55-06)
- Tully (NE Qld SE55-06)
- Other authors/contributors:
- 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):
- 1933
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1907
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