Transport and trade / by Walter E. Roth
- Bib ID:
- 1673864
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Roth, Walter Edmund, 1861?-1933
- Description:
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- Sydney : [Australian Museum], 1910
- 19 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Series:
- North Queensland ethnography: bulletin ; no.14.
- Summary:
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Methods of crossing water - natural bridge (Endeavour River); inability to swim (Burke & Georgina Rivers), method of swimming (Cape Bedford, Cooktown, Princess Charlotte Bay); use of floating logs (Keppel Island, Mitchell River); log rafts (Tully, Wellesley Islands); bark canoes (Batavia Archer River - Cardwell, Tully River & Pennefather River); names of different parts of single sheet bark canoes given for Nggerikudi and Mallanpara tribes; three-sheet type used by Tarumbal (Fitzroy River); dug-outs of Papuan origin (Endeavour River, Batavia River); outriggers between Flinders and Endeavour Rivers, names given for different parts of dug-outs - Nggerikudi & Kokoyimidir, use of paddles; note on Brisbane canoes; detailed account of each type of transport; trade & barter - lists manufactures traded between groups - Bloomfield River, Princess Charlotte Bay, Normanby River (Koko-Rarmul to Koko-wara) Endeavour River, Laura River, Cape Bedford, Flinders River, Cairns, Kuranda, Cape Grafton, Tully River, Pennefather River.
- Notes:
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- Caption title.
- "From Records of the Australian Museum, Vol.viii, no.1." - Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland, Northern -- Boats
- Aboriginal Australians -- Commerce -- Queensland, Northern
- Darumbal people (E46) (Qld SF56-13)
- Indigenous peoples - Pacific - Papuans
- Transport - Water - Canoes
- Transport - Water - Paddles
- Gunggandji / Gungandji people (Y114) (Qld SE55-06)
- Trade and exchange
- Gugu Warra / Koko Wara people (Y80) (Qld SD55-13)
- Nggerigudi / Yupngayth people (Y19) (Qld SD54-03)
- Kalkatungu / Kalkadoon people (G13) (Qld SF54-02)
- Gugu Rarmul / Rarmul people (Y71) (Qld SD54-16)
- Transport - Water - Rafts
- Malanbarra / Gulngay people (Y126) (Qld SE55-06)
- Guugu Yimidhirr / Gugu Yimithirr / Kuku Yimidhirr people (Y82) (Qld SD55-13)
- Wenlock River / Batavia River (Qld NW Cape York SD54-03, SD54-04, SD54-08)
- Tully (NE Qld SE55-06)
- Pennefather River (Qld NW Cape York SD54-03)
- Laura / Quinkan area (Qld SE Cape York SD55-13)
- Georgina River (Qld Far West SF54)
- Keppel Islands (E Qld SF56-13)
- Queensland Gulf country (Qld SE54)
- Cardwell (NE Qld SE55-10)
- Cairns (NE Qld SE55-02)
- Princess Charlotte Bay (Qld SE Cape York SD54-12, SD55-09)
- Brisbane (SE Qld SG56-15)
- Papua New Guinea (PNG)
- Wujal Wujal / Bloomfield River (Qld SE Cape York SD55-13)
- Normanby River (Qld SE Cape York SD55-09, SD55-13)
- Wellesley Islands (Qld Gulf Islands SE54-01)
- Fitzroy River (WA Kimberley SE51, SE52)
- Endeavour River (Qld SE Cape York SD55-13)
- Yarrabah / Cape Grafton (NE Qld SE55-02)
- Kuranda (NE Qld SE55-02)
- Cooktown (Qld SE Cape York SD55-13)
- Cape Bedford (Qld SE Cape York SD55-13)
- Archer River (Qld NW Cape York SD54-07, SD54-08)
- Mitchell River (Qld NW Cape York SD54, SE54, SE55)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australian Museum
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1933
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1910
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