Murray of Yarralumla / Gwendoline Wilson
- Bib ID:
- 1573160
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wilson, Gwendoline, 1912?-2007
- Description:
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- Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1968
- xvii, 334 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
- Summary:
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Account of life of T.A. Murray & Canberra district; p.33; Aborigines gathered southern end Lake George, hostile with settlers for taking land; p.40; European influence in southern highlands (food, shaving); p.44; Chief Protector of Aborigines at Gundaroo found several half castes, l844; p.60-62; Effect of European diseases; native place names; p.85; Low birthrate & desire to wander; p.l0l; 12 to 20 native families worked clearing scrub, etc., war between alpine & coastal tribes, massacre of coastal tribe l839; p.105; Brindabella Valley legendary home of bunyip & Yahoo; p.106-l09; With Murrays expedition crossing Snowy Mountains; p.110; Yarrongobilly caves explored, native skull found; p.125-127; Meeting with war party, murder of Bondaroon (Hume River) & Hongkong (Queanbeyan) by Goulburn tribe led by Manganine retold; p.127; Woman collecting ant eggs; p.130-131; Collecting bogong moth; p.134-135; Natives as shepherds; p.138; Murrays toast to Aborigines at Australia Club.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 319-323.
- NL Copy is signed by the author
- Subject:
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- Murray, Terence Aubrey, 1810-1873
- Animals - Invertebrates - Insects - Butterflies / Moths
- Food - Insects
- Gathering - Insects - Ants and termites
- Stories and motifs - Devils, monsters, evil spirits, hairy men, bunyips
- Language - Vocabulary - Place names
- Health - Physiology and diseases
- Demography - Birth rate
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
- Hunting
- Ngunawal / Ngunnawal people (D3) (NSW SI55-16)
- Feuds and warfare
- Weereewaa / Lake George (S NSW SI55-12)
- Brindabella Range (ACT / S NSW SI55-16)
- Queanbeyan (S NSW SI55-16)
- Snowy Mountains / Kosciusko National Park (S NSW SI55-16)
- Canberra (ACT SI55-16)
- Yarralumla (Canberra ACT SI55-16)
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2077 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2007
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1968
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