Australie : un voyage á travers le bush / par Edouard Marcet ; dessins de MM. G. Liquier et D. d'après les indications de l'auteur
- Bib ID:
- 673805
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Marcet, Edouard
- Description:
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- Geneve : Imprimerie de Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1868
- 268 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Summary:
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Journey started at Rockhampton in order to travel to the Isaacs R. to set up sheep station; p.23-30; Aboriginal camp site (arrangement of fires, possum skin rug, slaughtered sheep), native police (recruited from Murray and Murrumbidgee tribes) taken to Queensland; p.31-38; Account of clash with white settler on Comet R; p.42-45; Tracking of medicine man (pulled strings from the mouth, use of 3 black stones); p.46-49; Use of reed to breathe under water when pursued; p.53-57; Ritual lamentation at death, funerary customs (drying of skin & bones, burial of remains, distributions of bones), bones used as remedy for sickness & talisman against evil; p.59-62; Kangaroo dance (possum skin drum accompaniment, body painting & ornaments, kangaroo skin carrying bag for babies, whistle signal); p.173- 187; Description of bunya-bunya feast on Isaacs R., cannibalism after feast; p.192; Footnote on fishing with grass & reed nets; p.244245; Usual form of marriage by elopement; p.262; Footnote on spear dragged between toes to avoid detection (Birria, Koundjerri, Koungarditchi), use and preparation of pituri obtained on Barcoo & Darling Rs., use of bamboo pipe - Cape York, Narrinyeri belief on smoking & pregnancy; p.69-88; Protection against cold, mud protection against mosquitoes & biting insects, contrasts light bough shelters with tropical coast huts, villages of up to 70 huts seen by Stuart on Darling R., domestication of dingo, skull drinking cup - Murray &; Darling Rs., food preparation (earth ovens, hot stones, ash instead of salt), description of oven at Cape Otway, kitchen middens; rafts & outrigger canoes (on northern coast), dugout canoes slower to build, manufacture of stone axes, flaking by heating & rapid cooling, stone workshop noted at Cape York River, description of weapons (shields, clubs, stingray spine spearheads,; womera, boomerang), use of boomerang, throwing method, hunting techniques, toy weet-weet.
- Notes:
- The illustrations are ten mounted full page photographs, printed titles below on heavier paper, and ten smaller photographs that appear throughout the text. They reproduce drawings by two artists: Gabriel Liquier (10 smaller illustrations in the text: pages 25, 56, 79, 122, 124, 132, 159, 199, 216, 224 and 4 plates: pages 26, 66, 250, 262) and Etienne Duval (six plates: pages 104, 142, 168, 212, 214, 238). The photographic reproductions are albumen prints produced by the Geneva commercial photographer F. Poncy.
- Cited In:
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- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 12251
- Arnold, J. & Hay, J. Bibliography of Australian literature, volume 3, page 305
- Boom, Mattie & Rooseboom, Hans. A new art: photography in the 19th century, B265
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- History
- Hunting - Traps, nets etc
- Stories and motifs - Kangaroos / Wallabies
- Weapons - Boomerangs - Throwing
- Art - Body art
- Cannibalism
- Material culture - Fur and skin objects and decorations
- Weapons - Boomerangs - Making
- Hunting - Kangaroo / Wallaby
- Technology - Fire - Fire making
- Animals - Mammals - Marsupials - Possums / Gliders / Cuscus
- Stories and motifs - Insects
- Weapons - Clubs and fighting sticks
- Law enforcement - Police - Native police
- Death - Mortuary customs
- Reproduction - Pregnancy
- Communications - Nonverbal - Smoke signals
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry - Sheep and wool
- Animals - Invertebrates - Insects - Mosquitoes
- Kungkari / Gunggari people (L38) (Qld SG55-01)
- Housing - Shelters
- Substance use - Pituri
- Animals - Mammals - Dingoes / Dogs
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever people
- Gender relations - Elopement
- Hunting, gathering and fishing - Tracking
- Recreation - Games
- Substance use - Smoking / Tobacco
- Weapons - Spears - Throwing
- Fishing - Fish nets
- Weapons - Spearthrowers
- Death - Mourning
- Transport - Water - Canoes
- Birria / Biria / Pirriya people (L36) (Qld SG54-08)
- Health - Physiology and diseases
- Ngarrindjeri / Narrinjeri people (S69) (SA SI54-13)
- Sites - Middens
- Plants - Pituri
- Habitation - Camps - Hearths, ovens, fireplaces etc
- Animals - Fish - Stingrays
- Weapons - Shields
- Food - Insects
- Sites - Stone arrangements
- Sites - Conservation and protection
- Technology - Stone - Flakes
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects - Stones
- Transport - Water - Rafts
- Technology - Bags
- Queensland -- Description and travel
- Murrumbidgee River (SW NSW SI54, SI55)
- Cape Otway / Otway Range (W Vic SJ54-12)
- Comet River (E Qld SF55-15, SF55-16, SG55-04)
- Barcoo River (Qld Far West SG54, SG55)
- Darling River (NSW SH55, SI54)
- Rockhampton (E Qld SF56-13)
- Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Voyage à travers le bush
- 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):
- 1914
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1868
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