The native tribes of Western Australia / Daisy Bates ; edited by Isobel White
- Bib ID:
- 1561432
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951
- Description:
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- Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1985
- xii, 387 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0642993335
- Summary:
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An arrangement of Bates ethnographic manuscripts originally prepared during work for the Western Australian Government (1904-1912) for a proposed book of the same title; includes detailed editorial commentary concerning arrangement, deletion and sources and an introductory biography and background to the work; covers mainly material from the southwest, Murchison and northwest (Kimberley) regions; includes detailed information on tribal organisation and geographic location; social organisation, including moieties, semi-moieties, sections, relationship terms, marriage arrangements, bestowal, elopements, illicit marriages, sexual relations, conception, childbirth, child-rearing and avoidance rules; male initiation in the Bunbury, Vasse and Broome districts; totemism; religion, including moral code, mythic origins and beliefs about death; magic and sorcery, including bone pointing, healing and rainmaking; food procurement and preparation, including techniques, seasonality and division of labor; art and craft, including cave painting, rock engraving, manufacture of weapons and implements, bartering and trade; diseases and remedies; death and burial practices; dances, songs and ceremonies, including body adornment, songs texts and musical accompaniment.
- Full contents:
- Includes index.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 373-378.
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
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- Technology - Utensils
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage - Wrong marriage
- Sex relations
- Art - Rock engraving
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Body - Decoration
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever people
- Music - Vocal - Origins
- Religion - Totemism
- Social organisation - Avoidance rules - Avoidance relationships
- Magic and sorcery - Clever people
- Language - Vocabulary - Word lists
- Fishing
- Religion - After death beliefs
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Moieties
- Religion - Rites - Increase
- Dance - Ownership
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Reproduction - Conception
- Gathering
- Ceremonies - Rain making
- Food - Preparation - Cooking
- Technology - Tools
- Trade and exchange
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever People
- Cannibalism
- Gender relations - Elopement
- Health - Physiology and diseases
- Weapons
- Hunting
- Social behaviour - Socialisation - Child rearing
- Art - Rock art - Engraving
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Gender relations - Division of labour
- Art - Rock painting
- Environment - Climate and weather - Seasons
- Stories and motifs
- Body - Decoration - Body modification
- Food - Sociocultural aspects - Avoidance
- Language - Vocabulary - Human classification
- Reproduction - Childbirth
- Wardandi people (W3) (WA SI50-06)
- Murchison River (WA South Pilbara SG50)
- Vasse River (SW WA SI50-05)
- Bunbury (SW WA SI50-06)
- Gascoyne / Murchison area (WA SG50)
- Wupipi / Broome (WA West Kimberley SE51-06)
- Broome (WA West Kimberley SE51-06)
- Subject:
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia
- Other authors/contributors:
- White, Isobel
- Copyright:
-
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2035 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1985
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