Making connections : a journey along Central Australian Aboriginal trading routes / general editors: Val Donovan and Colleen Wall
- Bib ID:
- 3398095
- Format:
- Book
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Brisbane : Arts Queensland, 2004
- xvi, 119 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0958182329
- Series:
- ERA Collection 2003-2008
- Summary:
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This book published by Arts Queensland, aims to enrich the experiences of traveller and to help modern Australians understand more about past, present and future. It provides information about the Aboriginal dreaming paths and trade routes of inland Australia through Queensland.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: A Message from the Minister vi
- Foreword vii
- About this Book ix
- Acknowledgements xv
- Introduction 1
- Landscapes of Exchange 8
- The North-west 11
- Market Forces 12
- Boulia 24
- Pituri 25
- Message-Sticks and 'Yabber' Mail 29
- The Channel Country 33
- Cooper Creek 35
- From Ochre to Dust: a clash of culture 36
- The Red Centre 39
- The Simpson Desert 42
- Social Life and Spiritual Beliefs of the Simpson Desert Peoples 43
- In the Simpson Desert 47
- Lake Eyre 59
- Water in the Desert: South Australia's mound springs 60
- Kwatye (water) in the Great Artesian Basin 65
- The Flinders Ranges 69
- Flinders Ranges Ochre 70
- The Explorers 81
- Three Tracks Across the Desert 88
- Glossary 101
- Author's References 102
- General Reading List 110
- Useful websites 111
- The Authors 112
- Index 114.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 102-111.
- Subject:
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- Trade routes -- Australia -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Commerce -- History
- Cultural protocols
- Stories and motifs
- Trade and exchange
- Ceremonies
- Diyari / Dieri people (L17) (SA SH54-01)
- Kalkatungu / Kalkadoon people (G13) (Qld SF54-02)
- Substance use - Pituri
- Communications - Message sticks
- Technology - Pigments and ochres
- Trade and exchange - Trade routes
- Water supply - Ground water
- Australia, Central -- Description and travel
- Flinders Ranges (NE SA SH54-09, SH54-13)
- Simpson Desert (SE Central NT, NE SA SF53, SG53)
- Boulia (Qld Far West SF54-10)
- Kati Thanda / Lake Eyre (NE SA SH53-04)
- Australian Aboriginal studies (Queensland)
- Historical geography
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2054 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2004
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