Nhanda villages of the Victoria district, Western Australia / Rupert Gerritsen
- Bib ID:
- 1701903
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gerritsen, Rupert, 1953-2013
- Description:
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- [Canberra] : Intellectual Property Publications, 2002
- 31 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0958104506
- Summary:
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Discusses historical background to area; site identification based on reports of 1839 sightings by explorer Lieutenant George Grey; settlement size; form and structure of dwellings; permanency of settlements; degree of sedentism; size and type of settlements; other sites; concludes Nhanda people of Victoria District engaged in agriculture; has reached conclusions on numbers, size, sites and possible sites of settlements; construction of dwellings; that there were different types of settlements ranging from dispersed settlement to villages; that the settlements were probably permanent and residents at least multi-seasonally sedentary; that there were other habitation and settlement sites in the region.
- Notes:
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- Spiral bound.
- Bibliography: p. 27-31.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Antiquities
- Historic sites -- Western Australia
- Nhanda people -- Western Australia -- History
- Sites - Sites of significance
- Housing - Shelters
- Nhanta / Nhanda people (W14) (WA SG50-13)
- Housing
- Amangu people (W12) (WA SH50-01)
- Hunting, gathering and fishing
- Greenough River (WA Gascoyne / Murchison SG50-14, SH50-01, SH50-02)
- Bowes River (WA Gascoyne / Murchison SG 50-14, SH 50-01, SH 50-02)
- Hutt River (WA Gascoyne / Murchison SG 50-14, SH 50-01, SH 50-02)
- Copyright:
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- Until 2083 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2013
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2002
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