Australian sketches : second series / by Thomas McCombie
- Bib ID:
- 2189338
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- McCombie, Thomas, 1819-1869
- Description:
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- Melbourne : H.T. Dwight, 1866
- 219 pages ; 18 cm.
- Summary:
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p.151-161; Vic. - population, causes of decline, marriage, treatment of women, prostitution (with Europeans), burial, warfare, revenge for killings, hunting, intelligence; Short accounts by Mr. Wilson on beliefs about Buckeen who stole kidney fat; tooth avulsion ceremony, and by Lieut. Tuckey on hostilities in Vic.; p.164-165; Burial - Tas., Gipps Land, Darling/Lachlan R.
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 11882
- Subject:
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- Death - Mortuary customs
- Initiation - Tooth avulsion
- Feuds and warfare - Avenging
- Sex relations - Prostitution
- Magic and sorcery - Kidney fat removal
- Gippsland / Eastern Victoria (E Vic SJ55)
- Western Victoria (W Vic)
- North West New South Wales (NW NSW SH54, SH55, SI54)
- Northern New South Wales (N NSW SH55, SH56)
- North West Victoria (NW Vic SI55)
- Southwest New South Wales (SW NSW SI54, SI55)
- Tasmania (Tas)
- Lachlan River (NSW SI54, SI55)
- Darling River (NSW SH55, SI54)
- 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):
- 1869
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1866
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