Aborigines of Australia : illustrated with photographs / Olga Hoyt
- Bib ID:
- 446404
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gruhzit-Hoyt, Olga, 1922-
- Description:
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- New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., [1969]
- 128 p. : ill., map. ; 25 cm.
- Series:
- Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books.
- Summary:
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Describes the racial characteristics, history, beliefs and tribal customs, family life, and natural habitat of the Australian Aborigines and discusses how the coming of the white man affected their way of life.
- Notes:
- For children.
- Cited In:
- Muir, M. A bibliography of Australian children's books, 3652
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile literature
- Ethnology -- Australia
- Gender relations - Polygamy
- Technology - Stone
- Initiation - Tooth avulsion
- Stories and motifs - Mountains
- Communications - Message sticks
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects - Bullroarers
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Moieties
- Art - Rock art - Engraving
- Performing arts
- Art - Painting - Bark
- Music - Vocal
- Music - Instruments
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Ceremonies - Women
- Reproduction - Conception
- Animals - Birds
- Stories and motifs - Rainbow serpent
- Adolescence - Puberty
- Communications - Nonverbal - Sign language and gestures
- Children
- Weapons
- Language - Vocabulary - Animal names
- Initiation - Circumcision
- Death - Inquests
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Gender relations - Division of labour
- Hunting - Birds - Emus
- Gathering
- Daily life - Domestic - Sleeping
- Colonisation
- Government policy - State and territory - Queensland
- Religion - Totemism
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Initiation - Finger amputation
- Fishing
- Death - Mourning - Mourning caps
- Pinjarup language (W6) (WA SI50-02)
- Food - Preparation - Cooking
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Water supply - Waterholes and rockpools
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Religion - After death beliefs
- Stories and motifs - Water sources
- Stories and motifs - Emu
- Reproduction - Childbirth
- Housing
- Stories and motifs - Devils, monsters, evil spirits, hairy men, bunyips
- Food - Sociocultural aspects - Sharing
- Literature and stories - Juvenile
- Government policy - State and territory - Western Australia
- Pinjarup people (W6) (WA SI50-02)
- Caledon Bay (East Arnhem Land SD53-04)
- Kata Tjuta / Olgas (South Central NT SG52-08)
- Hornet Bank (SW Qld SG55-08)
- Pinjarra (SW WA SI50-02)
- Western Australia - Central Australia (WA SE52, SF52, SG52)
- Uluru / Ayers Rock (South Central NT SG52-08)
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Muir, Marcie. Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2092 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2022
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1969
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