Petermann journey
- Bib ID:
- 2477594
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gill, Walter, 1895-
- Description:
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- [Adelaide] Rigby [1968]
- 183 p. illus., map (on lining papers) 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0851790615
- Summary:
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Journey from Hermannsburg to Petermann Ranges, 1931; p.1-3; Finke River, sacred ground, corroboree site, hiding place for ritual objects, totemic site; Arundta and Pitjantjatjarra at mission; p.20; Approval granted to enter Reserve; p.25; Description of Button and half-caste Johnson; p.41-44; Middleton Ponds, Aboriginal mother and daughter Looney and Tum; p.49-51; Camp near Middleton Ponds, tribesman Lion unable to lace-up shoes; p.62; Ulgunna well; p.70-71; Drawings, near Ayers Rock; p.77; Native sinks, Etenerra; p.88; Natives located near Etenerra; p.90-91; Description of camp life; p.96; Mount Miller taboo to women; p.99; Spearing rabbit; p.109-113; Large gathering natives near Docker Creek, description, ornaments, hairdressing, reaction on seeing whites; p.118-124; Native camp, spear making, cooking, leg injury examined, circumcision and subincision, spear throwing competition; corroboree, singing, clapping sticks; p.127-140; Implements - yam sticks, cutting and scraping tools, coolamons, wooden barbed spears, wommera, stone knives, hand-operated spindle, notes on abilities and disabilities of the people, mock battle before corroboree, genital scarification; dance, singers, bodily contact, miming Kangaroo dance; p.142-150; Interest shown in watching white man bathe; return to Hermannsburg, corroboree, dingo, kangaroo dance; girls sent by elders to white camp; p.156-158; Intra-tribal fight over, woman Putta Putta Springs; p.162-163; Womens activities when leaving camp, Piltati Rock Hole; p.168-170; Dingoes, Mount Olga area; p.173; Cave drawings Ayers Rock.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects
- Initiation - Subincision
- Social organisation - Avoidance rules - Avoidance relationships
- Music - Instruments - Percussion - Clapsticks
- Costume and clothing - Hair dressing
- Art - Drawing
- Body - Scarification
- Animals - Mammals - Dingoes / Dogs
- Art - Rock art
- Ceremonies - Mock fighting
- Stories and motifs - Kangaroos / Wallabies
- Technology - Wood - Digging sticks
- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Technology - Stone - Knives
- Hunting - Rabbit
- Food - Meat - Kangaroo / Wallaby
- Gathering - Plants - Yams
- Weapons - Spearthrowers - Making
- Initiation - Circumcision
- Religion - Totemism
- Technology - Containers - Coolamons
- Technology - Stone - Scrapers
- Weapons - Spears - Throwing
- Pitjantjatjara people (C6) (NT SG52-11)
- Northern Territory -- Description and travel
- Uluru / Ayers Rock (South Central NT SG52-08)
- Finke River (South Central NT SF53-13, SG53-01, SG53-06)
- Ntaria / Hermannsburg (South Central NT SF53-13)
- Kaltukatjara / Docker River (South Central NT SG52-03)
- Kata Tjuta / Olgas (South Central NT SG52-08)
- Petermann Ranges (South Central NT SG52-07, WA SG52-06)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2065 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1995
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1968
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