Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia / by Baldwin Spencer
- Bib ID:
- 1921264
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Spencer, Baldwin, Sir, 1860-1929
- Description:
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- London : Macmillan, 1914
- xx, 516 p., [73] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 23 cm.
- Series:
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- Hallstrom Pacific Collection (Hallstrom 1257)
- Hallstrom Pacific Collection (Hallstrom 1839)
- Summary:
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Physical characteristics; organization and marriage regulations, relationship terms, status terms, local grouping; initiation ceremonies - Melville Island, Larakia tribe, Worgait (circumcision) initiates visit other tribal camps; totemic systems and totem groups; ceremonial objects; burial and mourning ceremonies, magic & medicine, reincarnation and conception beliefs, weapons & implements, canoes, clothing & ornaments; ritual bodily decoration; vocabulary and notes of Warrai tribe & Melville Island tribe; subjects cover Wardaman, Laragia, Worgait, Warrai, Melville & Bathurst Islands tribes.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
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- Transport - Water - Canoes
- Habitation - Camps
- Reproduction - Conception
- Technology - Tools
- Initiation - Circumcision
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Language - Vocabulary - Human classification
- Body - Decoration
- Religion - Totemism
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever people
- Religion - After death beliefs
- Weapons
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Death - Mourning
- Costume and clothing
- Larrakia / Laragiya / Gulumirrgin language (N21) (NT SD52-04)
- Batjamal / Wogait people (N6) (NT SD52-07)
- Warray / Warrai people (N25) (NT SD52-08)
- Gaagudju / Gagadju / Gagadyu language (N50) (NT SD53-01)
- Wardaman language (N35) (NT SD52-16)
- Gaagudju / Gagadju / Gagadyu people (N50) (NT SD53-01)
- Wardaman people (N35) (NT SD52-16)
- Batjamal / Wogait language (N6) (NT SD52-07)
- Warray / Warrai language (N25) (NT SD52-08)
- Larrakia / Laragiya / Gulumirrgin people (N21) (NT SD52-04)
- Tiwi people (N20) (NT SC52-16)
- Tiwi language (N20) (NT SC52-16)
- Bathurst Island (NT SC52-15)
- Northern Territory Top End (NT)
- Yermalner / Melville Island (NT SC52-16)
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1929
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1914
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