The Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina / as seen by Peter Beveridge
- Bib ID:
- 2335177
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Beveridge, Peter, 1829-1885
- Description:
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- Melbourne : M.L. Hutchinson, 1889
- 191 pages ; 19 cm.
- Summary:
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Brief notes on leadership; diseases and ways of healing; kinds of food; marital and sexual relationships; the use of women; cannibalism; cooking places; burial and mourning ceremonies; recreational activities; the making and uses of weapons and canoes; the uses and kinds of fibres; ways of catching fish and ducks; religious concepts and magic; construction of huts; crime and justice; value of native dogs; concepts of geography and astronomy; division of the year; concept of numbers; songs and corroberies; firemaking; tattooing; making of opossum cloaks; native mills; legends of courtenie (native companion) and kurwie (emu) and of the ogre Ngarou; magicians (Bangals); messengers (Ngallow Wattows); general linguistics information; vocabulary; Watty Watty and Litchoo Litchoo tribes; Published posthumously.
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 6992
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria
- Aboriginal Australians -- Murray River Valley (N.S.W.-S.A.)
- Technology - Fire - Fire making
- Hunting - Birds
- Fishing
- Crime
- Housing - Shelters
- Death - Mortuary customs
- Food - Sociocultural aspects - Sharing
- Stories and motifs - Emu
- Costume and clothing - Cloaks and coats
- Language - Vocabulary - Human classification
- Death - Mourning
- Music - Vocal
- Ladji Ladji / Latje Latje people (S23) (Vic SI54-11)
- Wadi Wadi / Wathi Wathi language (D4) (Vic SI54-16)
- Indigenous knowledge - Astronomy
- Animals - Mammals - Marsupials - Possums / Gliders / Cuscus
- Body - Scarification
- Health - Physiology and diseases
- Animals - Birds - Ducks / Geese
- Communications - Messengers
- Cannibalism
- Weapons
- Wadi Wadi / Wathi Wathi people (D4) (Vic SI54-16)
- Transport - Water - Canoes
- Ladji Ladji / Latje Latje language (S23) (Vic SI54-11)
- Dance - Ceremonial
- Victoria (Vic)
- Riverina (SW NSW SI54, SI55)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1885
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1889
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