The Dieyerie tribe of Australian Aborigines / by Samuel Gason ; edited by George Isaacs
- Bib ID:
- 1819045
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gason, Samuel, author
- Description:
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- Adelaide, [South Australia] : W. C. Cox, Government Printer, 1874
- 51 pages ; 22 cm.
- Series:
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK5419
- Summary:
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General account of the Dieri; trade, economy, dogs, mythology; social structure and relations - councils, treaties, execution parties, punishment methods; tooth avulsion, initiation practices - circumcision and associated ceremonies; funeral rites - cannibalism; sorcery; rain making; increase rituals; customs and beliefs; red ochre expeditions - Bookatoo; diseases - cures, native doctors; word lists - animals, plants, weapons and implements, ornaments, human body, kinship, notation, astronomy, general vocabulary.
- Notes:
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- Includes "a catalogue of animals, plants, weapons, and ornaments, accompanied by the native names."
- National Library's of Australia's NK5419 copy in pale green wrappers and inscribed in ink on the title page with Sir William Cairns's compliments; enclosure bears the bookplate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1874/15).
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK5419.
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 9832
- Subject:
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- Dieri language L17
- Diyari / Dieri people (L17) (SA SH54-01)
- Adolescence - Puberty
- Body - Decoration
- Body - Scarification
- Cannibalism
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Ceremonies - Rain making
- Children
- Costume and clothing - Nose pegs and piercing
- Death - Mortuary customs
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Feuds and warfare
- Feuds and warfare - Avenging
- Food - Preparation - Cooking - Plants
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever people
- Health - Physiology and diseases
- Health services - Health workers - Medical practitioners
- Hunting, gathering and fishing
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Initiation
- Initiation - Circumcision
- Initiation - Subincision
- Initiation - Tooth avulsion
- Language - Linguistics - Phonology and phonetics - Orthography and spelling
- Language - Texts and translations - Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal language
- Language - Texts and translations - non-Aboriginal to Aboriginal language
- Technology - Tools
- Language - Vocabulary - Animal names
- Language - Vocabulary - Plant names
- Language - Vocabulary - Word lists
- Magic and sorcery - Clever people
- Religion - Rites - Increase
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Stories and motifs - Sun
- Subsistence and economy
- Technology - Utensils
- Trade and exchange
- Weapons
- Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Languages
- Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Social life and customs
- Diyari (Australian people)
- Diyari language
- Cooper Creek (Qld Far West SG54, NE SA SH54)
- North East South Australia (NE SA SG54, SH54)
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Isaacs, George
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 1924 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1874
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