Coast of adventure : untamed north Australia / by Charles Barrett
- Bib ID:
- 1886996
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Barrett, Charles, 1879-1959
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens, 1941
- 216 p., [25] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Summary:
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Reminiscences of travelling through Arnhem Land; life on Groote Eylandt, Macassan influence; visit to Port Essington, Milingimbi; translation by Rev. Webb of the Lords Prayer in Kopapingo, population of Milingimbi Mission; cannibalism practised by Burera tribe; disinterrment ceremony, tribal disagreement; Wessel Islands - description of cave paintings, carvings, painted skulls; food gathering, types of food collected; theory of origin of Macassan well at Milingimbi, description of kitchen midden; brief surveys of early expeditions; Rainbow Serpent beliefs.
- Subject:
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- Coasts -- Australia, Northern
- Aboriginal Australians
- Gupapuyngu people (N122.1) (NT SD53-03)
- Art - Subjects - Contact
- Burarra people (N82) (NT SD53-02)
- Djinang / Dyinang language (N94.1) (NT SD53-02)
- Language - Texts and translations - non-Aboriginal to Aboriginal language
- Cannibalism
- Sites - Middens
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Burarra people (N135) (NT SD53-03)
- Djinang / Dyinang people (N94.1) (NT SD53-02)
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Sites - Macassan sites
- Settlement and contacts - Macassans and Indonesians
- Gathering
- Stories and motifs - Rainbow serpent
- Australia, Northern -- Description and travel -- 1901-1950
- Australia -- Pictorial works
- Milingimbi (Central Arnhem Land NT SD53-02)
- Groote Eylandt (NT Gulf Islands SD53-07, SD53-08)
- Port Essington (West Arnhem Land NT SC53-13)
- Wessel Islands (East Arnhem Land NT SC53-15)
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2029 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1959
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1941
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