Taming the north / by Hudson Fysh
- Bib ID:
- 1822250
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Fysh, Hudson, Sir, 1895-1974
- Edition:
- Rev. and enl. ed.
- Description:
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- Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1950
- xvi, 265 p., [9] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- Summary:
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Story of Alexander Kennedy, Scottish migrant who arrived at Rockhampton in 1861; p.31-34; Details of Cullin-la-ringo massacre and Fraser massacre at Hornetbank; p.85-91; Aboriginal/white relations, native police, quotes Parry-Okeden report; p.94-97; Massacre at Woonamo waterhole 12m. from Sulieman Creek homestead, 1878, hunt for murderers, piebald native among murderers, notes on cannibalism quoting Andrew Petrie; p.121-125; Disperses party of natives who raided homestead, killed cattle; warning of subsequent raid given by native servant, free translation of songs from preparatory corroboree, Kennedys complaints at police headquarters, Brisbane; p.126- 139; Authors meeting with natives near Wollogorang Station between Burketown and the Roper River; general description of Aboriginal life, quotes W.E. Roth on the Kalkadoons in Cloncurry district; nomadic hunting & gathering existence, use of fire, domestication of dingo; three types of shelter among Cloncurry tribes; north of Cloncurry, huts on raised platforms to avoid flooding, fires to prevent mosquitoes; dress & ornaments; use of coolamon, skin water bags, hair or string dilly-bag, hafted greenstone axes, other weapons; camp fights, womens fights; brief notes on class system with example for Upper Flinders River tribe; death & sickness attributed to enemies, bone pointing described; message sticks sent by Kalkadoons to Georgina River tribes to arrange trade markets; galah & lizard myth; pituri bartered on the upper Mulligan River; dance steps, boomerangs & thigh slapping as accompaniment; feathers, ochres & copi as ceremonial decorations Kalkadoon & Mitakoodi attitude to white men; p.141-145; Murder of Beresford (officer in charge of Native Police, Cloncurry district), F.C. Urquharts work with Native Police to track murderers; p.148-149; p.177-186; Tracking down of natives who continued to attack white settlers & spear their cattle.
- Notes:
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- Maps on endpapers.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [253]
- Subject:
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- Kennedy, Alexander, 1837-1936
- Pioneers -- Queensland -- Biography
- Health - Skin physiology and disease
- Substance use - Pituri
- Law enforcement - Police conduct and attitudes
- Race relations
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems
- Material culture - String and rope making
- Stories and motifs - Birds
- Law enforcement - Police - Native police
- Mayi-Thakurti / Mitakoodi language (G16) (Qld SF54-02)
- Technology - Containers - Coolamons
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry - Beef cattle
- Technology - Dilly bags
- Material culture - Bird feather objects and decorations
- Animals - Invertebrates - Insects - Mosquitoes
- Hunting, gathering and fishing - Tracking
- Settlement and contacts - Chinese
- Trade and exchange
- Technology - Fire - Fire making
- Technology - Containers - Water carriers
- Housing - Shelters
- Kalkatungu / Kalkadoon people (G13) (Qld SF54-02)
- Animals - Birds - Parrots
- Mayi-Thakurti / Mitakoodi people (G16) (Qld SF54-02)
- Stories and motifs - Dingoes / dogs
- Music - Instruments - Percussion - Paired boomerangs
- Habitation - Nomadism
- Sex relations
- Plants - Pituri
- Music - Vocal
- Material culture - Fur and skin objects and decorations
- Kalkatungu / Kalkadoon language (G13) (Qld SF54-02)
- Magic and sorcery - Clever people
- Material culture - Human hair objects and decorations
- Communications - Message sticks
- Language - Texts and translations - Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal language
- Environment - Climate and weather - Floods
- Technology - Stone - Ground
- Dance - Ceremonial
- Stories and motifs - Lizards / goannas
- Colonisation
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Environment - Land management - Fire
- Queensland -- Discovery and exploration
- Queensland -- History -- 1824-1900
- Northern Territory - Central NT
- Cullin-La-Ringo (E Qld SF55-15)
- Mulligan River (Qld Far West SF54, SG54)
- Burketown (Qld Gulf SE54-06)
- Brisbane (SE Qld SG56-15)
- Roper River (NT Top End SD53-09, SD53-10, SD53-11)
- Rockhampton (E Qld SF56-13)
- Georgina River (Qld Far West SF54)
- Hornet Bank (SW Qld SG55-08)
- Cloncurry (Qld Far NW SF54-02)
- Copyright:
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- Until 2044 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1974
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1950
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