Recollections of squatting in Victoria, then called the Port Phillip District (from 1841 to 1851) / Edward M. Curr
- Bib ID:
- 721936
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Curr, Edward M. (Edward Micklethwaite), 1820-1889
- Edition:
- 2nd ed., reset.
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1965
- 193 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Summary:
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Numerous accounts of contact with natives - Tongala Station (Goulburn R.) - attitude of settlers towards natives; Detailed account of Bangerang tribe marriage, food, hunting, cooking, types of ovens, laws, tribal & inter-tibal relationships, initiation, life cycle, camp life infanticide, tribal etiquette, fire making, mode of burial, physical & mental characteristics, courage; Plates : Aborigines on the Murray; A young native wearing an oppossum-skin cloak; Native of the Bogan; Maps: Squatters rungs in the 1840s; Early squatting rung in the Kilmore-Heathcote District; The Goulburn blacks tribal lands -- Maps show distribution of tribes and sections of Bangerang.
- Notes:
-
- "Abridged, with a foreword and notes by Harley W. Forster".
- First published by George Robertson, Melbourne, 1883.
- Includes index.
- Subject:
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- Frontier and pioneer life -- Victoria
- Sheep -- Victoria
- Ethnology -- Australia
- Recreation - Games - String games and string figures
- Housing - Shelters
- Hunting
- Fishing
- Gender relations - Betrothal
- Recreation - Play
- Communications - Message sticks
- Initiation - Tooth avulsion
- Social organisation - Avoidance rules
- Law enforcement - Police conduct and attitudes
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Environment - Land management - Fire
- Technology - Fire - Fire making
- Communications - Messengers
- Gender relations - Division of labour
- Weapons
- Animals - Livestock - Stealing and killing
- Health - Physiology and diseases
- Death - Mortuary customs
- Costume and clothing - Nose pegs and piercing
- Magic and sorcery - Clever people
- Feuds and warfare - Avenging
- Hunting, gathering and fishing - Tracking
- Plants - Figs
- Bangerang people (S40) (Vic SJ55-02)
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry - Sheep and wool
- Transport - Water - Canoes
- Gender relations - Marriage
- Cannibalism
- Colbinabbin (N Vic SJ55-01)
- Goulburn River (N Vic SJ55-01)
- Ovens River (N Vic SJ55-01)
- Moira (N Vic SJ55-02)
- Tongala (N Vic SJ55-01)
- Lake Boga (NW Vic SI54-16)
- Port Phillip / Western Port area (Vic SJ55)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Forster, Harley W
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1965
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