The land of the dawning : being facts gleaned from cannibals in the Australian Stone Age / by W.H. Willshire
- Bib ID:
- 786513
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Willshire, W. H
- Printer:
- (Adelaide : W.K. Thomas)
- Description:
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- [Adelaide? : s.n.], 1896
- 101 pages : illustrations portraits ; 22 cm.
- Summary:
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Incidents which happened during 16 years as officer in charge of Native Police; covers Katherine, Daly, Gregory, Roper & Victoria Rivers; brief comments on initiation, cicatrization marks with interpretation; mode of burial (Barrow Creek, Tennants Creek, Newcastle Waters); murders by natives from 1873; practice of cannibalism; vocabularies of Gordon Creek area, Katherine - Willeroo, Victoria River & names of trees etc. in Upper Wickham country.
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 18626
- Subject:
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- Willshire, W. H
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory
- Criminology -- Northern Territory
- Wardaman people (N35) (NT SD52-16)
- Nungali language (N28) (NT SD52-12)
- Wardaman language (N35) (NT SD52-16)
- Law enforcement - Police - Native police
- Bilinara language (N36) (NT SD52-16)
- Nungali people (N28) (NT SD52-12)
- Cannibalism
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies - Tree and platform burial
- Bilinara people (N36) (NT SD52-16)
- Body - Scarification
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Language - Vocabulary - Plant names
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Northern Territory -- Description and travel -- 1851-1900
- Roper River (NT Top End SD53-09, SD53-10, SD53-11)
- Katherine (NT Top End SD53-09)
- Newcastle Waters (North NT SE53-05)
- Gordon Creek (North NT SE52-04)
- Victoria (Vic)
- Victoria River (North NT SD52, SE52)
- Willeroo (North NT SD52-16)
- Barrow Creek (Central NT SF53-06)
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- Tennant Creek (Central NT SE53-14)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1896
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1896
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