Spinifex and sand : a narrative of five years' pioneering and exploration in Western Australia
- Bib ID:
- 857758
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Carnegie, David W. (David Wynford), 1871-1900
- Description:
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- London : C.Arthur Pearson, 1898
- xvi, 454 pages : illustrations, map.
- Summary:
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Pt.2, p.35-36; Near Mount Quinn, brush fences set up to trap wallabies, native grave described; p.47-53; Water holes at Mount Luck, native camps; Pt.5; Notes on previous explorers in the interior; employment of natives by expeditions; Native taken prisoner to act as guide to find water (Victoria Desert); Empress Spring - native camps, native cairns, 8 words listed with meanings; native well near Browne Range; Camp - implements - bark coolamons, wells, wind-breaks, camp lay-out, grindstones, yam sticks, plant foods; kurdaitcha shoes found; physical appearance of natives; method of cooking kangaroo rats, lizards; pearl shell pubic covering traded from coast 500 miles distant, firesticks carried, sporrans or tassels made of various materials; Chap.11; Natives encountered at Wilsons Cliffs, searching for water, manufacture of chewing ball - native tobacoo; Helena Spring, 7 native words with meanings; Chap.13; Shelter described, native with scarifications and painted body; native wells; spears, wommeras, shields and short throwing sticks carried by natives (near Southesk Tablelands); native village near Mount Ernest, wurlies, pronounced Jewish features of Aborigines, hair style; Chap.17; Creek Aborigines treatment of prisoners - chains used; description od corroboree (Emu), body decoration; Appendix to pt.5; Diagrams and description of weapons; Spears Kimberley and Desert - method of throwing; wommera; tomahawks - Desert; boomerangs; clubs and throwing sticks; shields, quartz knife, ceremonial sticks; rain-making boards, message sticks; brief notes on marriage laws (with tables); p.372; Method of catching ducks; p.374; 12 words with meanings from Sturt Creek area; p.380-411; Encounters with natives west of Mount Webb - wells, notes on trading.
- Notes:
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- Library's SR copy is inscribed and signed by the author: "Miss Maud Trench with best wishes for 1899 - from David W. Carnegie"; note inserted states that three maps belonging to this copy are held in the Library's map collection; two handwritten letters dated March 14. 1898 (3, Challoner Street, West Kensington, W.) and Jan. 24 1899 (72, Lancaster Gate, W.) from Carnegie to Miss Trench - the "sister with 7 brothers" - inserted in the rear of the volume with press clipping reporting the death of the Hon. David Carnegie by poisoned arrow in North Nigeria on 29 November 1900; another note indicating that the volumes was supplied to C.A. Burmester per Michael Terry (c/o Rural Bank, Martin Place, Sydney).
- Library's GMM copy is half bound in leather with marbled boards; bears bookplate ex-libris Gregory M. Mathews; inscribed ? Tupp 21-1-07 (in ink) and Gregory M. Mathews 30/1/15 (in pencil); includes maps.
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 7960.
- Subject:
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- Gold mines and mining -- Western Australia
- Food - Meat - Lizard / Goanna
- Costume and clothing - Pubic covering
- Stories and motifs - Emu
- Weapons - Shields
- Weapons - Throwing sticks
- Gathering - Plants - Yams
- Dance - Ceremonial
- Material culture - Bark objects
- Language - Vocabulary
- Technology - Stone - Knives
- Technology - Containers - Coolamons
- Substance use - Smoking / Tobacco
- Government policy - State and territory - Western Australia
- Technology - Wood - Digging sticks
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects - Boards
- Technology - Stone - Grindstones
- Technology - Wood - Fire sticks
- Language - Linguistics - Phonology - Pronunciation
- Trade and exchange
- Communications - Nonverbal - Sign language and gestures
- Daily life
- Weapons - Spears
- Weapons - Spearthrowers - Making
- Animals - Mammals - Marsupials - Rat Kangaroo
- Sites - Mortuary sites and cemeteries
- Housing - Shelters
- Housing - Shelters - Wind
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Hunting - Birds
- Ceremonies - Rain making
- Plants - Spinifex
- Technology - Stone - Axes / hatchets
- Habitation - Camps
- Technology - Stone - Percussion and abrading
- Water supply - Waterholes and rockpools
- Costume and clothing - Hair dressing
- Law enforcement - Customary - Kadaitcha
- Food - Meat - Kangaroo / Wallaby
- Art - Body art
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism - 1851-1900
- Weapons - Boomerangs - Making
- Body - Scarification
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Food - Preparation - Cooking - Plants
- Communications - Message sticks
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Animals - Birds - Ducks / Geese
- Human biology - Physical anthropology - Hair characteristics
- Weapons - Clubs and fighting sticks
- Western Australia -- Discovery and exploration
- South East Western Australia (SE WA SH51, SH52, SI51, SI52)
- Cairns (NE Qld SE55-02)
- Winbarku / Mount Webb (Angas Hills, Central WA Great Sandy Desert SF52-10)
- East Kimberley area (WA SD52, SE52)
- Victoria (Vic)
- Goulburn map area (S NSW SI55-12)
- Empress Spring (Little Sandy Desert WA SG51-11)
- 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):
- 1900
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1898
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