Nomads of the Australian desert / Charles P. Mountford
- Bib ID:
- 2827680
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976, author
- Access Conditions:
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- Restricted access: Aboriginal ceremonial, gender specific material.
- Not for general viewing. Where Australian Aborigines are concerned, and in areas where traditional Aboriginal religion is still significant, this book should be used only after consultation with local male religious leaders.
- Description:
-
- Adelaide : Rigby, 1976
- 628 pages, 1 folded leaf of plates, 12 pages of colour plates : illustrations, map ; 27 cm.
- ISBN:
-
- 072700140X
- 072700140X
- Summary:
-
Based mainly on the Pitjantjatjara & Yankunytjatjara people. Subsistence patterns including food preparation; material culture; trade; sand drawings; string figures; body painting rock painting & engraving; head ornaments; stone arrangements, childrens drawings in crayon; leaf games; myths in relation to sacred sites; objects, astronomy, animal & art; rituals including initiation, rain, increase, mortuary; tooth avulsion; medicine men; dancing; sign language.
- Full contents:
- Includes index.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Edition withdrawn from sale.
- Bibliography: pages 582-584.
- Subject:
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- Art - Body art
- Art - Childrens art
- Art - Rock art - Engraving
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Art - Sand and ground design
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects
- Religion - Rites - Increase
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Ceremonies - Rain making
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever people
- Communications - Nonverbal - Sign language and gestures
- Food - Preparation - Cooking
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Dance
- Hunting, gathering and fishing
- Indigenous knowledge - Astronomy
- Indigenous knowledge - Botany
- Indigenous knowledge - Zoology
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Habitation - Nomadism
- Recreation - Play - Children
- Recreation - Games - String games and string figures
- Sites - Ceremonial grounds
- Sites - Sacred sites
- Sites - Stone arrangements
- Technology
- Initiation - Tooth avulsion
- Trade and exchange
- Pitjantjatjara language (C6) (NT SG52-11)
- Pitjantjatjara people (C6) (NT SG52-11)
- Yankunytjatjara language (C4) (NT SG52-16)
- Yankunytjatjara people (C4) (NT SG52-16)
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central -- Social life and customs
- Yankunytjatjara (Australian people)
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central
- Aboriginal Australians -- Religion
- Mythology, Aboriginal Australian
- Pitjantjatjara (Australian people)
- Junkandjara (Australian people)
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central -- Religion
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central -- Rites and ceremonies
- Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal Australians. Social life
- South Central Northern Territory (NT)
- Western Australia - Central Australia (WA SE52, SF52, SG52)
- South Australia - Central Australia (SA SG52, SG53)
- Australian Aborigines - Ethnography
- Australian Aborigines. Social life
- Govt. Doc. Number:
- Aus
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2046 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1976
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1976
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