Pituri Pete : a saga of cattle lands and desert sands / by R.S. Muir
- Bib ID:
- 139178
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Muir, Peter, 1929-
- Edition:
- Collectors ed.
- Description:
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- Leonora, W.A. : Peter Muir, 1987
- xx, 643 p. : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0959143181
- Summary:
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Autobiography of white stockman initiated by Arrernte; details of life in Marree-Camooweal, Helen Springs-Meekatharra area; describes attitudes towards Aborigines, particularly women, government prohibitions on cohabitation; life of Aboriginal stockmen, communities of Warlpiri at Mt Doreen, Pintupi at Haasts Bluff, Arrernte at Alice Springs, Ngalia at Laverton; found racism in Kimberleys; also worked ochre mines Rumbalara, as dogger in Wiluna area; biographies including Tommy Ingebong.
- Notes:
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- Cover title: Pituri Pete : stockman & legend.
- Available from Mr R. S. Muir, PO Box 41, Leonora, W.A. 6438.
- Limited ed. of 50 numbered and signed copies.
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
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- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Race relations - Racial discrimination
- Sites - Quarries - Ochre and pigment
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
- Race relations
- Sex relations
- Animals - Feral animals - Dingo control
- Substance use - Pituri
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry - Beef cattle
- Plants - Pituri
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Pintupi people (C10) (NT SF52-11)
- Ngalia / Ngalea people (C2) (SA SH52-07)
- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Mparntwe / Alice Springs (South Central NT SF53-14)
- Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51, SE52)
- Laverton (SE WA Goldfields SH51-02)
- Ikuntji / Haasts Bluff (South Central NT SF52-16)
- Meekatharra (WA Gascoyne / Murchison SG50-12)
- South Australia - West (SA SH53, SI53)
- Kurutiti / Helen Springs (North NT SE53-10)
- Shepparton / Mooroopna / Rumbalara (N Vic SJ55-01)
- Wiluna (Little Sandy Desert WA SG51-09)
- Pilbara area (WA SF50, SF51, SG50)
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1987
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