Yiwarra kuju : the Canning Stock Route / National Museum of Australia
- Bib ID:
- 4838043
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Canberra : National Museum of Australia Press, 2010
- xxiv, 231 p. : col. ill. map, ports. : 29 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781876944780
- Summary:
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The Aboriginal people of Australias Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track along which cattle could be driven from Kimberley stations to markets in the south.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Canning Stock Route -- Exhibitions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Canning Stock Route -- Social life and customs -- Exhibitions
- Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Western Australia -- Exhibitions
- Stories and motifs - Kangaroos / Wallabies
- Sites - Dreaming tracks
- Art - Artists
- Stories and motifs - Water sources
- Culture - Relationship to land
- Religion - Dreaming
- Stories and motifs - Devils, monsters, evil spirits, hairy men, bunyips
- Stories and motifs - Rainbow serpent
- History - Biographies - Indigenous
- Stories and motifs - Seven Sisters
- Art - Exhibitions
- Stories and motifs - Cultural heroes
- Canning Stock Route (W.A.) -- Exhibitions
- Canning Stock Route (WA SF51, SG51)
- Kumpupirntily / Lake Disappointment (Little Sandy Desert WA SF51-14)
- Other authors/contributors:
- National Museum of Australia
- Available From:
- GPO Box 1901 Canberra ACT 2601
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2080 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2010
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