A study of the Aboriginal sites in the Cessnock-Wollombi region of the Hunter Valley, N.S.W. / [W.J. Needham]
- Bib ID:
- 254411
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Needham, W. J
- Description:
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- [Cessnock, N.S.W.] : [W.J. Needham], c1981
- 76 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0959400605
- Summary:
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Detailed description of rock art; records of ceremonial and burial grounds, axe quarry, salt quarries, wells and hunting hide; background information on social organization, subsistence, material culture, mythology and contact history of Darkinung and Wonarua people, including biography of Wooligal; local place name meanings and Wonarua and Kamilaroi word lists.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Cover title: Burragurra, where the spirit walked : the Aboriginal relics of the Cessnock-Wollombi region in the Hunter Valley of N.S.W.
- Part one of a two-volume treatise on the Natural and aboriginal history of the Cessnock-Wollombi Region. Part two, "Along the Wollombi", was published in 1984.
- NLpf 994.42 N375 copy Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Subject:
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- Australian Aboriginal antiquities. Sites. New South Wales. Wollombi region
- Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities
- Historic sites -- New South Wales -- Wollombi Region
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Fishing
- Weapons - Shields
- Weapons - Boomerangs
- Magic and sorcery - Clever people
- Religion - Totemism
- Gathering
- Weapons - Clubs and fighting sticks
- Gamilaraay / Gamilaroi / Kamilaroi people (D23) (NSW SH55-12)
- Sites - Quarries - Stone
- Technology - Stone - Ground
- Weapons - Spearthrowers
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Sites - Scarred trees
- Wonnarua / Wanaruah language (S63) (NSW SI56-01)
- Social organisation
- Wonnarua / Wanaruah people (S63) (NSW SI56-01)
- Art - Rock art - Engraving
- Language - Vocabulary - Place names
- Language - Vocabulary - Word lists
- Hunting
- Stories and motifs - Celestial phenomena
- Darkinung / Darkinjung / Darkinoong language (S65) (NSW SI56-05)
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
- Gamilaraay / Gamilaroi / Kamilaroi language (D23) (NSW SH55-12)
- Sites - Ceremonial grounds
- Technology - Stone - Knapped
- Settlement and contacts
- Stories and motifs - Snakes
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects
- Sites - Mortuary sites and cemeteries
- Weapons - Spears
- Darkinung / Darkinjung / Darkinoong people (S65) (NSW SI56-05)
- Wollombi Region (N.S.W.) -- Antiquities
- Cessnock Region (N.S.W.) -- Antiquities
- Hunter River (NSW N Coast SI56-01, SH56-13)
- Also Titled:
- Burragurra, where the spirit walked : the Aboriginal relics of the Cessnock-Wollombi region in the Hunter Valley of N.S.W
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- Publication date:
- 1981
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