Crossing the dead heart / by C.T. Madigan
- Bib ID:
- 2328919
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Madigan, C. T. (Cecil Thomas), 1889-1947
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Georgian House, 1946
- xiv, 171 p., [31] p. of plates (1 folded) : ill., map, ports. ; 22 cm.
- Series:
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK5592.
- Summary:
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Narrative of Simpson Desert Expedition 1939; p.28-29; Cooking fish & duck; hunting & returning boomerangs; p.33; Stone arrangement at edge of Finke tableland near Andado Stn.; p.37; 2 place names near Andado; remains of Dieri tribe moved to Marree; p.39; Place names around Andado; p.64; Chalcedony chips, parts of grinding stones found; p.111; Ill-treatment of natives of waterhole; Andy accompanied the expedition p. 27, photo p. 74; Ly-Ly showed the party where a soak was p. 37 and later joined them for part of the journey p. 42-49.
- Notes:
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- "An Australiana Society publication."
- Includes index.
- National Library of Australia's NL 919.4291 M178 copy stamped 'Welfare Branch Library'.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-451164799
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK5592.
- Subject:
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- Simpson Desert Expedition, (1939)
- Food - Seafood - Fish
- Diyari / Dieri people (L17) (SA SH54-01)
- Animals - Birds - Ducks / Geese
- Hunting - Birds
- Technology - Stone - Grindstones
- Food - Meat - Birds
- Language - Vocabulary - Place names
- Technology - Stone - Percussion and abrading
- Cultural heritage - Repatriation - Human remains
- Sites - Stone arrangements
- Weapons - Boomerangs
- Simpson Desert -- Discovery and exploration
- Aputula / Finke (South Central NT SG53-06)
- Simpson Desert (SE Central NT, NE SA SF53, SG53)
- Marree (NE SA SH54-05)
- 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):
- 1947
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1946
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