The Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains / Robert Edwards
- Bib ID:
- 175198
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Edwards, Robert, 1930-2023
- Description:
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- Adelaide : South Australian Museum, 1972
- 16 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0724318313
- Summary:
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Territory at white settlement, early occupation shown at Fulham excavation, Kangaroo Island and other sites; use of stone tools (especially Kangaroo Island), legend of formation of Backstairs Passage; social organisation, impact of introduced disease, shelters, clothing and ornaments, preparation of fur skins, weapons, food - hunting and collecting methods, string making, netting technique, canoes, food preparation, legend of Tjilbruke.
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians. Kaurna. Social customs. South Australia. Adelaide Plains
- Kaurna (Australian people) -- Social life and customs
- Technology - Utensils
- Stories and motifs
- Transport - Water - Canoes
- Hunting - Kangaroo / Wallaby
- Kaurna people (L3) (SA SI54-09)
- Costume and clothing
- Material culture - String and rope making
- Social organisation
- Hunting
- Weapons
- Technology - Stone
- Health - Physiology and diseases
- Food - Preparation - Cooking
- Colonisation
- Fishing - Fish nets
- Sites - Excavations
- Adelaide (SE SA SI54-09)
- South Australia (SA)
- Kangaroo Island (SE SA SI53-16)
- Other authors/contributors:
- South Australian Museum
- Copyright:
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- Since 2022 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1972
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