On the wallaby : through Victoria / by E.M. Clowes
- Bib ID:
- 1986863
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mordaunt, Elinor, 1872?-1942
- Description:
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- London : Heinemann, 1911
- xi, 308 p., plates ; 20 cm.
- Summary:
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A practical appraisal of Australian society and the product of both reminiscence and research (some of it unreliable), this book is interesting as the memoir of a woman who had learned to adapt to unfamiliar class values.
- Subject:
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- Gender relations - Intermarriage
- Dance - Ceremonial
- Religion - Totemism
- Weapons - Shields
- Stories and motifs - Mythological beings
- Law - Indigenous
- Hunting - Traps, nets etc
- Indigenous knowledge
- Weapons - Boomerangs
- Race relations - Representation - History
- Technology - Awls and needles
- Weapons - Clubs and fighting sticks
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Technology - Stone - Grindstones
- Victoria -- Description and travel -- 1901-1950
- Victoria -- Social life and customs -- 1901-1945
- Healesville / Coranderrk (E Vic Yarra Valley SJ55-06)
- Australia
- Victoria (Vic)
- Copyright:
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Out of Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1942
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1911
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