In Southern seas : wanderings of a naturalist
- Bib ID:
- 753880
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Smith, W. Ramsay (William Ramsay), 1859-1937
- Description:
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- London : John Murray, 1924
- xviii, 297 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Summary:
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Description of Aboriginal encampment near Darwin, life of natives; general health, scarification, lines depict family history - births, deaths etc.; half castes; natives ovens, general life & cockle hunting (Coorong); Australia - theories of origin and migration within Australia; physical characteristics, mental ability; clothing and body ornamenting, dwellings, hunting methods, foods, narcotics & stimulants, medicines, weapons and implements.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
- Body - Scarification
- History - Genealogy and family history
- Food - Preparation - Cooking
- Housing - Shelters
- Costume and clothing
- Demography - Palaeodemography - Aboriginal settlement of Australia
- Fishing
- Weapons
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Habitation - Camps - Hearths, ovens, fireplaces etc
- Daily life
- Animals - Invertebrates - Crustacea and molluscs - Shellfish etc
- Hunting
- Technology - Tools
- Northern Territory -- Description and travel
- Darwin (N.T.) -- Description and travel
- Darwin (NT Top End SD52-04)
- Coorong (SE SA SI54-13, SJ54-02)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1937
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1924
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