Women's technology / Alex Barlow
- Bib ID:
- 1831951
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Barlow, Alex
- Description:
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- South Melbourne : Macmillan Education Australia, 1994
- 31 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 20 x 26 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0732918219
- Series:
- Barlow, Alex. Aboriginal technology.
- Summary:
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Women's economic role and its associated artefacts - digging sticks, baskets and carrying dishes; gathering and food preparation; shell fishing - midden formation; grinding stones and seed processing - wild arrow root preparation; mythology - brolga, emu and the grindstone; women's religious role - relation to Dreaming; gathering; utensils - general; utensils - fibre and hair; utensils - bark; tools - stone - ground; social roles - sex based - female; mythology - emu, birds, material culture; women's rituals and participation in rituals.
- Notes:
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- For primary school students.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 31.
- Subject:
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- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Juvenile literature
- Aboriginal Australians -- Material culture -- Juvenile literature
- Gathering
- Gathering - Plants - Seeds
- Technology - Bags
- Technology - Wood - Digging sticks
- Technology - Utensils
- Ceremonies - Women
- Technology - Stone - Grindstones
- Stories and motifs - Birds
- Technology - Utensils - Dishes
- Other authors/contributors:
- Barlow, Alex
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1994
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