My fourth tour in Western Australia / by Albert F. Calvert ; illustrated by Walker Hodgson and from photographs
- Bib ID:
- 2385782
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Calvert, Albert Frederick, 1872-1946
- Description:
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- London : Heinemann, 1897
- xxvii, 359 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
- Summary:
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Journey from Albany to Pilbarra; p.132-133; Sketches by Aboriginal woman Hannans (Kalgoorlie); p.140-141; Native girl captured to lead prospectors to namma hole in rocks, Hannans; p.172-174; Native labour shepherds, pastoral work, tracking, food as repayment Murchison area, white attitudes; p.225-226; Gascoyne area, trouble with natives spearing sheep, punishment by whipping; p.233; Family group fishing Carnarvon; p.238; Malays as divers N.W. coast; p.253-255; Natives Sherlock Station near Mount Fraser, keen sense of humour, shyness; p.258- 260; Man & wife in charge of watering place near Sherlock, paid in tobacco; p.264-265; Description of nomadic family near Mallina, comparison of sexes, womens place & duties; p.269; Native boy devoted companion to teamster Peewah River; Chap.23; Author Graham Hill; p.287288; Woodstock mothers care for sick & dying child; p.295; 15-line poem To a Black Gin, Mallina; Chaps. 24-27; Author S.H. Whittaker; p.304-305; Native bondage discussed, terms of service, payment, Shaw River district; p.311; Nullagine area native women kept from camp by police; p.314-315; Half caste children, Nullagine tribal marriage; p.316318; Natives, Brockmans Station, cooking kangaroo; Chap.28; Author Walker Hodgson; includes list of books on Australia by Calvert.
- Notes:
- Ferguson, no. 7823.
- Subject:
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- Family
- Habitation - Nomadism
- Substance use - Smoking / Tobacco
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry - Sheep and wool
- Food - Meat - Kangaroo / Wallaby
- Law enforcement - Police
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1851-
- Fishing
- Hunting, gathering and fishing - Tracking
- Health - Physiology and diseases
- Food - Preparation - Cooking
- Animals - Livestock - Stealing and killing
- Employment - Conditions - Wages
- Gender relations - Division of labour
- Art - Crafts
- Western Australia -- Description and travel
- Woodstock (WA East Pilbara SF50-08)
- Shaw River (WA East Pilbara SF50-08, SF50-04)
- Carnarvon (WA South Pilbara / Gascoyne SG49-04)
- Murchison River (WA South Pilbara SG50)
- Kalgoorlie-Boulder (SE WA Goldfields SH51-09)
- Yirrangkaji / Nullagine (WA East Pilbara SF51-05)
- Gascoyne River (WA South Pilbara SG50)
- Albany / King George Sound (SW WA SI50-11, SI50-15)
- Sherlock (WA West Pilbara SF50-03)
- Gascoyne / Murchison area (WA SG50)
- 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):
- 1946
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1897
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