- Bib ID:
- 659730
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- [Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1965]
- iv, 54 p. 23 cm.
- Series:
- Australiana facsimile editions, no. 114
- Summary:
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p. 6 Aboriginal knowledge about springs in the bed of Lake Bathurst; p. 15 Aboriginal family gathering and eating manna from eucalypts near Yass; settler party offers Aborigines some sweets; p. 20 Tarcutta Creek region: Aboriginal familes follow explorers and camp with them; p. 23 : Indigo Creek region young Aboriginal man joins party with the intention of travelling to Port Philip and "buying" a woman from one of the tribes along the way; p. 26 Meeting with group of Aboriginal people at Ovens River; gifts given; p. 27; member of party goes shooting wild geese with Aboriginal companion; p. 30 Mention of Bretha and Baambargan, Aboriginal companions of travelling party; tree climbing to hunt possums; p. 31-32 method of honey gathering; p. 41 meeting with group of Aboriginal people at Yarra River; theft of cooking utensils; p. 42 young Aboriginal man who was seeking a wife is made fun of by a trick played upon him by the Yarra tribe; Author's observations about wives being considered as property.
- Notes:
- Facsim. of the copy in the State Library of Victoria, Australia.
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- Publication date:
- 1965
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