Back in the stone age : the natives of Central Australia / by Charles Chewings
- Bib ID:
- 1854429
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Chewings, Charles, 1859-1937
- Description:
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- Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1936
- xviii, 161 p., [19] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- National Library of Australia's Whelan copy has original dustjacker; signature of the author, Glen Osmond S.A. 1/1/1937 pasted inside front cover.
- Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this item may contain names, recordings, images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. Please also be aware that you may see certain words or descriptions within this work which reflect the author’s attitude, or that of the period in which the work was created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central -- Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
- Ethnology
- Indigenous peoples
- Alyawarr -- Alyawarre language (C14) (NT SF53-07)
- Alyawarr -- Alyawarre people (C14) (NT SF53-07)
- Arrernte -- Aranda language (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Arrernte -- Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Pinkangarna -- Bin-gongina language (C21) (NT SE53-09)
- Pinkangarna -- Bin-gongina people (C21) (NT SE53-09)
- Jingulu -- Djingili -- Jingili language (C22) (NT SE53-06)
- Jingulu -- Djingili -- Jingili people (C22) (NT SE53-06)
- Kaytetye -- Kaytej language (C13) (NT SF53-06)
- Kaytetye -- Kaytej people (C13) (NT SF53-06)
- Luritja -- Loritja language (C7.1) (NT SG52-04)
- Luritja -- Loritja people (C7.1) (NT SG52-04)
- Pitjantjatjara language (C6) (NT SG52-11)
- Pitjantjatjara people (C6) (NT SG52-11)
- Wakaya language (C16) (NT SE53-15)
- Wakaya people (C16) (NT SE53-15)
- Warlpiri language (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Warumungu language (C18) (NT SE53-01)
- Warumungu people (C18) (NT SE53-10)
- Wirangu language (C1) (SA SH53-14)
- Wirangu people (C1) (SA SH53-14)
- Yumu language (C11) (NT SF52-16)
- Yumu people (C11) (NT SF52-16)
- Aboriginal Australians
- Feuds and warfare -- Avenging
- Social organisation -- Avoidance rules -- Language
- Body -- Scarification
- Habitation -- Camps
- Ceremonies -- Rain making
- Children
- Health -- Treatments -- Traditional -- Clever people
- Communications -- Message sticks
- Communications -- Nonverbal -- Sign language and gestures
- Costume and clothing -- Hair dressing
- Costume and clothing -- Necklaces, pendants, etc
- Costume and clothing -- Nose pegs and piercing
- Costume and clothing -- Pubic covering
- Death -- Mourning
- Gender relations -- Division of labour
- Food -- Seafood -- Fish
- Food
- Food -- Insects -- Grubs
- Gathering -- Insects -- Grubs
- Food -- Meat -- Kangaroo -- Wallaby
- Social organisation -- Kinship -- Marriage
- Social organisation -- Avoidance rules -- Avoidance relationships
- Plants -- Spinifex
- Stories and motifs -- Rain and storms
- Recreation -- Play -- Children
- Religion -- Totemism
- Reproduction -- Childbirth
- Reproduction -- Conception
- Gender relations -- Betrothal
- Gender relations -- Elopement
- Food -- Meat -- Snake
- Substance use -- Smoking -- Tobacco
- Material culture -- Human hair objects and decorations
- Material culture -- String and rope making
- Technology -- Utensils
- Initiation -- Tooth avulsion
- Language -- Vocabulary -- Human classification
- Water supply
- Weapons -- Spears
- Weapons -- Spearthrowers -- Making
- Social organisation -- Kinship -- Marriage -- Wrong marriage
- Food -- Plants -- Yams
- Gathering -- Plants -- Yams
- Animals -- Amphibians -- Frogs and toads
- Animals -- Mammals -- Marsupials
- Alyawarr people C14
- Arrernte language C8
- Arrernte people C8
- Pinkangarna people C21
- Jingulu language C22
- Jingili people C22
- Kaytetye language C13
- Kaytetye people C13
- Luritja language C7.1
- Luritja people C7.1
- Pitjantjatjara language C6
- Pitjantjatjara people C6
- Wakaya language C16
- Wakaya people C16
- Warlpiri language C15
- Yapa people C15
- Warumungu language C18
- Warumungu people C18
- Wirangu language C1
- Wirangu people C1
- Yumu language C11
- Yumu people C11
- Alyawarr language C14
- Australia -- Central Australia
- Northern Territory -- Native races
- Northern Territory
- Barrow Creek (Central NT SF53-06)
- Finke Gorge (South Central NT SF53-13)
- Finke River (South Central NT SF53-13, SG53-01, SG53-06)
- Macumba (SA Central Australia SG53-15)
- Central Mount Stuart (Central NT Tanami Desert SF53-05)
- Tennant Creek (Central NT SE53-14)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1937
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1936
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