The emigrant's guide, or, Ten years practical experience in Australia / by David Mackenzie
- Bib ID:
- 2783045
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- MacKenzie, David, active 1845-1852
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. FC F4095 copy
- Description:
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- London : W.S. Orr, 1845
- viii, 280, 171 p. ; 16 cm.
- Summary:
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Information and guide book for emigrants to Australia; Chapter 13: fairly detailed description of customs and cultures of Aboriginal peoples of the Murrumbidgee & Murray River districts; describes a visit to the mission at Wellington Valley in 1840.
- Notes:
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- National Library of Australia's FC F4095 copy is bound in brown embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering.
- FC F4095 copy also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-85182050
- Includes "Descriptive vocabulary" of Aboriginal language of Western Australia, Perth and King Georges Sound regions.
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 4095
- Subject:
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- Social behaviour - Socialisation - Child rearing
- Food - Bush tucker
- Dance - Ceremonial
- Gender relations - Polygamy
- Feuds and warfare
- Religions - Christianity - Missionaries
- Reproduction - Infanticide
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Death - Mortuary customs
- Wellington (N NSW SI55-04)
- River Murray (SW NSW, N Vic, SE SA SI54, SI55)
- Murrumbidgee River (SW NSW SI54, SI55)
- Liverpool Plains (N NSW SH56-09)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1852
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1845
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