Aboriginals of Australia / by W. Baldwin Spencer
- Bib ID:
- 1887015
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Spencer, Baldwin, Sir, 1860-1929
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Govt. Printer, [1914?]
- [53] p. : ill., plates, map.
- Summary:
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Origin theory including Tasmanians, personal appearance, hair form, no relation of cicatrization to tribal or totemic groups in central & northern tribes except Melville Island; tribal organization, moieties, sections, subsection divisions; examples of tribal moiety (Dieri); 2 moiety class (Pitta Pitta - Roth) & Kamilaroi (Howitt & Fison), 2 or 4 classes of Arunta, Karriara, Warramunga (Bates), 4 class moiety of Mara tribe; no class organization of Kurnai & Kakadu; totemic systems & totemism examples of variations in social aspect, group, sex totem Kurnai, Dieri, Kamilaroi, Whakelbura, Arunta, Ilpirra, Unmatjera, Kaitish, Warramunga, Tjingilli, Binbinga; secret ritual, magical & ceremonial aspects of Arunta, use of messenger, ritual objects, tribal gathering, fire initiation, birds down & blood decorations; belief in descent from totemic animal, increase ceremonies of snake, Intichiuma, grub totem; women & childrens activities East Pilbara, dreaming increase; Kurnai initiation ceremony, Tundun summons other groups, ceremonial ground, tooth avulsion; various grades of Arunta initiation; showing sacred objects, instruction in laws & food restrictions, body painting, tossing, circumcision, sub-incision, Engwura; special status names; no mutilation north coastal areas, ober ground Kakadu, bullroarers shown to Larakia initiates, yam ceremony Melville Island, girls participation; after death beliefs, Arunta, totemic centres; Arunta spirit children beliefs, Qld. tribes Warramunga, Kakadu, Broome tribes; Great beings, medicine men, pointing bones, singing, use of hair, kidney fat, therapeutic magic; death due to magic, mortuary & mourning rites, Arunta & Warramunga, burial Boulia district, tree burial Mara, Binbinga, grave posts Melville & Bathurst Islands; cutting implements - axes, knives, adzes, spearheads, grinding mills, pounders, playing stones, sinkers; boomerangs, clubs & spears, wood, stone or bone heads, wooden troughs, baskets, shields, hair string, fishing nets, clothing; art, decorated shields south-eastern Australia, use of ochre, 3 types design, incision - Murray River, coastal N.S.W. & Victoria, grave trees N.S.W., rock engravings near Sydney; painting on weapons, bodies, ground, rock & bark; ceremonial designs, snake totem - Warramunga, other ceremonies; map gives distribution of various groups of tribes.
- Notes:
- "Reprinted from the Federal Handbook of Australia, issued in connexion with the visit of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to Australia, 1914."
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians
- Pitta Pitta / Bittha Bittha people (G6) (Qld SF54-10)
- Gubbi Gubbi / Kabi Kabi / Gabi Gabi people (E29) (Qld SG56-06)
- Yuin people (S67) (NSW SI56-13)
- Yagalingu people (E43) (Qld SF55-14)
- Diyari / Dieri people (L17) (SA SH54-01)
- Anmatyerre / Anmatyerr people (C8.1) (NT SF53-09)
- Mara / Marra people (N112) (NT SD53-11)
- Warumungu people (C18) (NT SE53-10)
- Gaagudju / Gagadju / Gagadyu people (N50) (NT SD53-01)
- Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Arabana / Arabunna people (L13) (SA SH53-03)
- Gamilaraay / Gamilaroi / Kamilaroi people (D23) (NSW SH55-12)
- Binbinga people (N138) (NT SE53-03)
- Larrakia / Laragiya / Gulumirrgin people (N21) (NT SD52-04)
- Ngunawal / Ngunnawal people (D3) (NSW SI55-16)
- Kaytetye / Kaytej people (C13) (NT SF53-06)
- Jingulu / Djingili / Jingili people (C22) (NT SE53-06)
- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Ngarrindjeri / Narrinjeri people (S69) (SA SI54-13)
- Gurdanji / Kurdanji / Gudanji people (C26) (NT SE53-07)
- Yorta Yorta / Yota Yota people (D2) (NSW SI55-13)
- Kurnai / Gunai people (S68) (Vic SJ55)
- Kariyarra people (W39) (WA SF50-10)
- River Murray (SW NSW, N Vic, SE SA SI54, SI55)
- East Pilbara area (WA SF50, SF51)
- Sydney (NSW SI56-05)
- South Australia - Central Australia (SA SG52, SG53)
- North West New South Wales (NW NSW SH54, SH55, SI54)
- Northern New South Wales (N NSW SH55, SH56)
- Southwest New South Wales (SW NSW SI54, SI55)
- Kakadu / Alligator Rivers area (NT SD53-01, SD53-05)
- Northern Territory Top End (NT)
- East Queensland (E Qld SF55, SF56)
- Queensland Far North West (Qld Far NW SE54)
- Wupipi / Broome (WA West Kimberley SE51-06)
- South Central Northern Territory (NT)
- Boulia (Qld Far West SF54-10)
- Victoria (Vic)
- Tasmania (Tas)
- Bathurst Island (NT SC52-15)
- South West Queensland (SW Qld SG54, SG55, SH54, SH55)
- Yermalner / Melville Island (NT SC52-16)
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- Publication date:
- 1914
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