Aborigines of the Hunter Valley : a study of colonial records / Helen Brayshaw
- Bib ID:
- 813740
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Brayshaw, Helen
- Description:
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- Scone, N.S.W. : Scone & Upper Hunter Historical Society, 1986
- 109 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0949187038
- Series:
- Bi-centennial publication (Scone and Upper Hunter Historical Society) ; no. 4.
- Summary:
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Environment; tribal territories, for Kamilaroi, Wonaruah, Geawegal, Gringal, Awabakal and Worimi inter-tribal ceremonies and trade; European views of Aborigines at contact; Kamilaroi expansion into Hunter Valley; Aboriginal demography; effects of smallpox and venereal disease; bark huts, canoes, cards and baskets, wooden bowls, shields, clubs, yamsticks, boomerangs, spears, spearthrowers, hatchets, shell scrapers, bone awls, skin clothes; food of plants, shellfish, fish, meat; methods of fishing and hunting; rituals and sites for initiation and burial; cave paintings, rock engravings; campsites.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 102-109.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Social life and customs
- Technology - Stone - Scrapers
- Art - Subjects - Contact
- Gamilaraay / Gamilaroi / Kamilaroi people (D23) (NSW SH55-12)
- Awabakal people (S66) (NSW SI56-05)
- Food - Seafood - Fish
- Art - Rock engraving
- Government policy - State and territory - New South Wales
- Trade and exchange
- Material culture - Bark objects
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Health - Urogenital system
- Food - Preparation - Cooking - Meat
- Weapons - Spearthrowers
- Demography - Population dynamics
- Wonnarua / Wanaruah people (S63) (NSW SI56-01)
- Weapons - Spears
- Gathering - Plants - Yams
- Geawegal people (E1) (NSW SI56-01)
- Sites - Dreaming tracks
- Stories and motifs - Fish
- Habitation - Camps
- Art - Crafts - Baskets and basketmaking
- Attitudes - Indigenous attitudes
- Sites - Mortuary sites and cemeteries
- Fishing
- Weapons - Shields
- Material culture - Fur and skin objects and decorations
- Health - Infectious diseases - Smallpox
- Transport - Water - Canoes
- Hunting
- Art - Rock painting
- Housing - Shelters
- Costume and clothing
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Sites - Ceremonial grounds
- Technology - Awls and needles
- Technology - Wood - Digging sticks
- Weapons - Boomerangs
- Health - Infectious diseases - Sexually transmitted diseases
- Geography - Territories and boundaries
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Technology - Stone - Axes / hatchets
- Worimi / Gadang / Kattang people (E2) (NSW SI56-02)
- Health - Skin physiology and disease
- Art - Rock art - Engraving
- Weapons - Clubs and fighting sticks
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism - 1788-1850
- Demography - Population mobility
- Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.) -- History
- Hunter River (NSW N Coast SI56-01, SH56-13)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Scone and Upper Hunter Historical Society Inc
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1986
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