Burial trees : being the first of a series on the Aboriginal customs of the Darling Valley and Central New South Wales / by Lindsay Black
- Bib ID:
- 2234669
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Black, Lindsay, 1886-1959
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens, 1941
- 38 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Series:
- Customs of the Aborigines of the Darling River Valley and of Central New South Wales.
- Summary:
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Map indicates area of burial trees, widows caps, cylindro conical stones and ceremonial trees; notes on carving of taphoglyphs and teleteglyphs by Wiradhuri and Kamilaroi; trees carved near Lake Cargelligo in memory of chiefs; grave of Yuranigh near Molong; description of burial; shield trees; 24 trees described in detail with illustrations.
- Notes:
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- Library's Whelan copy signed and inscribed in ink by the author, "Compliments from Lindsay Black".
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Mortuary customs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Rites and ceremonies
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Social life and customs
- Art - Sculpture - Tree carving
- Wiradjuri people (D10) (NSW SI55-07)
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects - Stones - Cylcons
- Gamilaraay / Gamilaroi / Kamilaroi people (D23) (NSW SH55-12)
- Death - Mourning - Mourning caps
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects - Stones
- Sites - Ceremonial grounds
- Sites - Scarred trees - Shield trees
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies - Tree and platform burial
- Sites - Mortuary sites and cemeteries
- Narromine (N NSW SI55-03)
- Burroway (N NSW SI55-03)
- North West New South Wales (NW NSW SH54, SH55, SI54)
- Waitoki (SW NSW SI55-07)
- Mungery (N NSW SI55-03)
- Mullah (N NSW SH55-15)
- Warren (N NSW SH55-15)
- Euromedah (N NSW SI55-03)
- Geraldra (SW NSW SI55-11)
- Lake Cargelligo (SW NSW SI55-06)
- Northern New South Wales (N NSW SH55, SH56)
- Molong (SW NSW SI55-08)
- Mitta Mitta (SW NSW SI55-11)
- Bulgandramine (N NSW SI55-03)
- Darling River (NSW SH55, SI54)
- Riversleigh (SW NSW SI55-07)
- Eurobla (N NSW SH55-15)
- Woodlands (N NSW SI55-03)
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2029 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1959
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1941
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