The life and labours of George Washington Walker, of Hobart Town, Tasmania / by James Backhouse and Charles Tylor
- Bib ID:
- 442659
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Walker, George Washington, 1800-1859
- Description:
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- London : A.W. Bennett ; York [England] : Thomas Brady, 1862
- xii, 556, 12 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 22 cm.
- Summary:
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p.43-44; Firing of huts & killing at Green Valley; p.46-47; Description of wooden spears & waddy; p.88-112; Aborigines on Flinders & Green Islands shelters, physical appearance, body ornamentation & scarification; foods - cooking & eating of mutton birds, other types of food, dancing, types of songs, hostile feeling between Port Dalrymple & Western tribes; inspection of site for new Settlement; illnesses believed to be agency of malevolent being, after-death beliefs; women belonging to sealers, treatment of women by sealers; necklaces presented to party; p.116, 119; Saving Aboriginal women from the sealers; p.120; Method of cremation (Western tribes); p.224-227; Visit to Wellington Valley Mission - killing of unwanted babies, prejudice against half-caste children; p.240-243; Moreton Island; Corroboree, notes on fishing nets, spears, clubs, boomerangs; Amity Point; Huts, foods; p.259; Shoalhaven area; Foods, transmigration of souls, belief about porpoises; p.283; Perth; Treatment of natives, early conflict between Murray & Swan tribes, relations between settlers & Aborigines.
- Subject:
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- Walker, George Washington, 1800-1859
- Walker, George Washington, 1800-1859 -- Diaries
- Walker, George Washington, 1800-1859 -- Correspondence
- Society of Friends -- Missions -- Tasmania
- Quakers -- Tasmania -- Biography
- Missionaries -- Tasmania -- Biography
- Reproduction
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1851-
- Environment - Land management - Fire
- Dance - Ceremonial
- Hunting - Traps, nets etc
- Body - Scarification
- Technology - Utensils
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Costume and clothing - Necklaces, pendants etc
- Weapons - Spears
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Fishing - Fish nets
- Religions - Christianity - Catholic Church
- Weapons - Clubs and fighting sticks
- Food - Meat - Birds
- Religions - Christianity - Missionaries
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies - Cremation
- Housing - Shelters
- Music - Vocal
- Animals - Marine mammals - Porpoises
- Hunting - Seal
- Religion - After death beliefs
- Religions - Christianity - Methodist Church
- Weapons - Boomerangs
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Australia -- Description and travel
- South Africa -- Description and travel
- Port Dalrymple (NE Tas SK55-04)
- Shoalhaven area (NSW S Coast SI56-09)
- Amity Point (Minjerriba / North Stradbroke Island SE Qld SG56-15)
- Moreton Island (SE Qld SG56-15)
- Southwest New South Wales (SW NSW SI54, SI55)
- Eastern Tasmania (E Tas SK55-06)
- Perth (SW WA SH50-14)
- Hobart (SE Tas SK55-08)
- Forster / Tuncurry (NSW N Coast SI56-02)
- Wellington (N NSW SI55-04)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Life of George Washington Walker
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1869
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1862
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